The Death of the Virgin
1750s
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink and brown wash over red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 11 x 14.4 cm (4 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.9.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C.; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 4.
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).
2012
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012
Bibliography
1984
Michel, Marianne Roland. Watteau: Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1984: 117, 137.
Markings
below the drawing at lower right: blindstamp of the mountmaker Glomy (Lugt 1119)
Wikidata ID
Q64569759