October, Drawing the Honey from the Beehives

c.1645

Claude Simpol

Artist, French, 1666 - 1716

Jacques Stella

Artist, French, 1596 - 1657

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash and white gouache, over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.7 × 30.1 cm (8 15/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Eric Coatelem, Paris); purchased 2001 by Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Jacques Stella (1596-1657). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, and Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. Paris, 2006, 224, under no. 157 (as Jacques Stella).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 56-57, 277, no. 19 (as Jacques Stella)(color).

Bibliography

2009

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Tanging the Bees: A Curious Apiarian Practice in a Drawing by Claude Simpol." Master Drawings 47, no. 4 (Winter, 2009): 443-446.

2010

  • Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington." Burlington Magazine 152 (January 2010): 67, fig. 86.

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