Venus
c. 1754
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk with touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk on gray paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.5 x 40 cm (8 7/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2000.9.5
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
1917
Drawings by Deceased Masters, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1917, no. 87.
1932
French Art, 1200 - 1900, Burlington House, London, 1932, no. 766 (Commemorative catalogue, London, 1933: 142, no. 645, pl. 170).
1982
Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 6.
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).
Bibliography
1950
Shoolman, R., and C. E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York, 1950: no. 36.
1989
Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 52, under no. P438.
2000
Richard, Paul. "Classic Examples of Peer Pleasure," The Washington Post (Sunday, August 27, 2000): G6.
Wikidata ID
Q64569761