Le Lutrin: A Night Scene with Boirude, Brontin, and L'Amour Surprised by an Owl Flying Out of a Lectern, c. 1718

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer with the verso blackened, and the border on an attached sheet of paper

Dimensions

sheet: 29.5 × 20.4 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2015.98.1

Artists / Makers

Bernard Picart (artist) French, 1673 - 1733

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: B. Picart fecit

Provenance

Possibly Curt Otto (c. 1880 - 1929). (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 November 1929, part of no. 167); purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (Lugt 4617); (sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 May 2015, no. 2); (via Pictura Fine Arts Amsterdam BV); purchased by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Haboldt & Co., Bob P.
van Regteren Altena, Iohan Quirijn