Preliminary Drawing for "A Donkey-Team (Attelage d'ânes)"

c. 1904

Bernard Boutet de Monvel

Artist, French, 1881 - 1913

Bernard Boutet de Monvel

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and black conté crayon on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Feiss)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36 × 48.3 cm (14 3/16 × 19 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.143.162

  • Series Title

    The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine [Volume 69 (Volume 47, New Series), November 1904 - April 1905, p. 22]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection of Paul L. Feiss, Cleveland, OH, by 1914; by inheritance to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Feiss, 1952; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1971); acquired 2015 by t he National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

recto: at lower left, in graphite:Bernard [underlined] B de Monvel; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: Attelage d'ânes; verso: various editorial annotations in black chalk, graphite, and blue pencil

Markings

recto: printed in black ink on label pasted at upper left: 7655; verso: written in black ink on Art Department, The Century Co. label at upper left: Tracking with Trackers / Attelage d'ânes; B. B. de Monvel; stamped in red ink at top center: ART DEPARTMENT / The CENTURY Co. / 33 East 17th St. / NEW YORK CITY

Watermarks

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