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Jean-Baptiste Deshays

A Young Woman Overcome by Love [recto], c. 1763

Not on View

Medium

black and red chalks with brown wash on buff laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.5 x 46.7 cm (10 13/16 x 18 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1994.11.1.a

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (artist) French, 1729 - 1765

Image Use

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Provenance

(sale, Paris, Nouveau Drouot, 11 March 1988, lot 79); (sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 1993, no. 141); (Succi Ltd., London); purchased by NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Succi Limited

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 166-167, 285, no. 72 (color; recto and verso).

Bibliography

2008: Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 64, 228, no. D.101.

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