Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark

1774

François-André Vincent

Artist, French, 1746 - 1816

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and brown wash with white gouache on light brown laid paper (originally blue); laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 41.9 x 55.6 cm (16 1/2 x 21 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.80.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 3 July 2007); (via Hazlitt, Gooden, & Fox, London); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 65.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 226-227, 289, no. 98 (color).

2012

  • The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012 (no cat.).

Inscriptions

signed and dated in brown ink at lower left: Vincent R. 1774 [words scratched out]; signed again at later date in brown in at lower right: Vincent

Wikidata ID

Q64569773

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