The Annunciation to the Shepherds
1894
Artist, French, 1854 - 1926

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal with conté crayon on wove paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke, in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
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Dimensions
overall: 94.3 x 70 cm (37 1/8 x 27 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2018.127.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kunsthandlung Michael Voggenauer, Cologne, by 1980). private collection; Kate Ganz, USA LTD, New York, by 2007; Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, Little Rock, 2009; Gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1895
Salon des Indépendents. Palais des Beaux-Arts et des Arts libéraux (Champs de Mars), Paris, 1895, no. 42.
1980
Französische Zeichnungen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Kunsthandlung Michael Voggenauer, Cologne, 1980, no. 19.
2012
De Delacroix à Signac, Dessins de la collection Dyke. Musée des impressionismes, Giverny, 2012, 130, 162, pl. 81 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison, eds.).
2013
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac, Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013, 130, 162, pl. 81 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison, eds.).
2014
Neo-impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2014 - 2015, 34-35, 177, fig. 32 (Cordelia Homburg, ed.).
Bibliography
2012
Ferretti Bocquillon, Marina. "Neo-Impressionist Drawings," in exh. cat. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac, National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 130, pl. 81.
Ferretti Bocquillon, Marina. "Dessins néo-Impressionistes," in exh. cat. De Delacroix à Signac, Dessins de la collection Dyke, Musée des impressionismes, Giverny, 2012, 130, pl. 81.
2014
Homburg, Cornelia. "Dreams of Reality," in Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities, exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2014, 34-35, fig. 32.
Inscriptions
bottom left: Ch Angrand '94