Figure Studies, Including One Man Sleeping on the Ground and Two Men Sawing

Claude-Joseph Vernet

Artist, French, 1714 - 1789

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 12.8 x 23.3 cm (5 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.240

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jacques Auguste Boussac [b. 1885], Paris (Lugt, 729b); probably his sale, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 10-11 May 1926, lots 237-238); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 176 (color).

Wikidata ID

Q64540148

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