Reclining Nymph
c. 1752
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
black and white chalk on brown laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.7 x 39.8 cm (8 15/16 x 15 11/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.9.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Peter Jones, Chester; Mr. Greene; Basil Lewis Dighton [d. 1930], London; The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1918; 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
1932
Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 772 (Commemorative catalogue, London, 1933: no. 644).
1982
Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 5.
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).
Bibliography
1989
Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 76, under P486.
Wikidata ID
Q64569760