Four Singing Commedia Dell'Arte Characters
early 18th century
Artist, French, 1673 - 1722

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper, irregularly trimmed and laid down on a sheet touched with faded blue watercolor, on an old album sheet
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 5.5 × 8.5 cm (2 3/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2022.40.21
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
From an album (probably compiled in the 19th century) discovered in a private collection outside Paris c. 2004[1]; (Galerie de Bayser, Paris); purchased by 2006 by Donald Stone, New York [1942- 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
[1] See Jennifer Tonkovich, "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): 464.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2006
Tonkovich, Jennifer. "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): no. 31, fig. 42.
Inscriptions
upper left in pen and black ink: XX