A Fountain with Three Nereids

1740s(?)

Joseph Ignace François Parrocel

Artist, French, 1704 - 1781

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white chalk on beige paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 40 × 27.2 cm (15 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.108.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1975

  • Paul Prouté, S.A. Catalogue "Dandré-Bardon". Paris, 1975: 16, no. 33 (as Charles Michel-Ange Challes)(reprod.).

1991

  • Paul Prouté, S.A. Catalogue "Coypel". Paris, 1991: 18, no. 23 (reprod.)

2014

  • Fuhring, Peter. Architecture & Ornement, Cent Dessins. Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris, 2014: 90-91, no. 38 (color).

Inscriptions

lower left in brown ink: Challe sculpteur [?], written over j f Parocel fecit

Wikidata ID

Q64591204

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