Marie Louise Petit at the Age of 105, with Her Young Nurse
1765
Artist, French, 1717 - 1806
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor over black and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on cream laid paper (cut across the top and reattached), laid down
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips in Memory of Neil Phillips
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Dimensions
sheet: 29.4 × 30.3 cm (11 9/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
mount: 40.2 × 31.3 cm (15 13/16 × 12 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2013.195.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Louis Carrogis, called Carmontelle; (his sale, Paris, 17 April 1807, part of no. 22); Chevalier Richard de Lédans, Paris; (his sale, Paris, 3 November 1816); Pierre de la Mésangère, Paris; (his sale, Paris, 18 July 1831, part of lot 304); to John Duff. (sale, Christie's New York, 22 January 2003, no. 69). (sale, Sotheby's London, 3 July 2013, no. 89); ; purchased (via Jean-Luc Baroni, London) in 2013 by NGA.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
inscribed (probably by Pierre de La Mésangère) in pen and brown ink on the old mount: Marie Louise Petit, Agée de 105 Ans. / Déssinée à Villers-Coterest Le 6. juillet 1765
Wikidata ID
Q64593402