Mercury and Pegasus
1660s/1670s
Artist, French, 1619 - 1690

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk and gray wash on laid paper, laid down on an old mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 17.2 × 13.9 cm (6 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
mount: 27.8 × 22.2 cm (10 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2022.40.8
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alzire Humbert, Paris. Alfred Norman, Paris [1910 - 1993] (Lugt 153c). (sale, Christie's London, 5 July 1999, no. 136); (Paul Proute, S.A., Paris, 2001); purchased 2001 by Donald Stone [1942 - 2020], New York; bequest to NGA, 2021.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2009
Paul Prouté S.A., Paris, Dessins - Estampes, catalogue "Watteau". Paris, 2001: no. 7.
Inscriptions
by later hand in brown ink on mount: LEBRUN; by later hand, upper right verso on mount in brown ink: Paris, 28 Aout / [unidentified paraphe]; by later hand, center verso of mount in brown ink: Collect.n Alzire Humbert; by later hand, lower center verso in blue ballpoint ink: Lebrun: Pegase et Mercure / De la serie des projets de [not deciphered] non executes / Dessin [not deciphered] au Louvre no. 6019 avec Pegase et un femme; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 990332; by later hand, lower right verso in blue ball point ink: voir / 6019 / du Louvre
Markings
Alzire Humbert, Paris. Alfred Norman (not in Lugt)