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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Mount Cairo from across the Melfa River, c. 1765/1766

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Medium

brush and gray wash on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 16.1 x 23.9 cm (6 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1990.42.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (artist) French, 1736 - 1810

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: D[?] au bord de la Melfa sur la route De rome a Naple; by later hand lower right in pen and ink: 634

Provenance

Baron de Malaussena (Lugt 1887)

Associated Names

le Claire, Thomas

Bibliography

1989: Thomas Le Claire, VI, 1989: 80-81.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 248, fig. 1.

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