A Young Benedictine Monk Kneeling

after 1824

Jean Leonard Lugardon

Artist, Swiss, 1801 - 1884

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 43.5 x 40 cm (17 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.13.a

Associated Artworks

A Young Priest Kneeling

Jean Leonard Lugardon

1845


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jean Léonard Lugardon [1801-1844], Paris and Geneva (Lugt 1486b); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 114-115, no. 46 (entry by Daniella Berman).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left in graphite (on hinge): p. 54; by later hand, lower left in graphite: K (reversed); by later hand, lower left in graphite: (not deciphered); by later hand, lower left in graphite: #4259

Watermarks

shell and PM initials

Wikidata ID

Q64581024


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