A Triton Blowing a Conch Shell

1724

Jean-Baptiste Nattier

Artist, French, 1678 - 1726

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray-brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.9 x 22.6 cm (11 x 8 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.9.19

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Peter Jones, Chester; Mr. Green; Basil L. Dighton, London; Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, 1918, 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. 2 (as Boucher).

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

Bibliography

1988

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "A Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Nattier." Master Drawings 26 (1988): 356-357, pl. 41.

Wikidata ID

Q64581162

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