Satyr
Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

Artwork overview
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Medium
chalk manner printed in red on laid paper
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Credit Line
Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
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Dimensions
plate: 55.6 x 39 cm (21 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
sheet: 67 x 50 cm (26 3/8 x 19 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2006.163.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Leymarie 1896, no. 31
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Grossherzliches Museum, Schwerin (Lugt 2273). Mr. Gregory Mescha and Mr. Thompson Ellwanger, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2006.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 70.
Bibliography
1896
Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 31.
Inscriptions
upper right in image: 31; lower left in image: Dessiné a Rome / par Michel Ange / Slodtz / Dapres Annibale Carache; lower center in image: A Paris Rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in image: De Marteau laine sculpsit C.P.R.; by later hand, lower right in ink: No 2 1/2; lower center in graphite: T. 31
Wikidata ID
Q76341181