Second Day, Second Story: Rinaldo d'Asti and the Widow

c. 1757

Hubert François Gravelot

Artist, French, 1699 - 1773

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and gray ink with brown wash over traces of red chalk on laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (to outer framing line): 11.3 x 5.7 cm (4 7/16 x 2 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.698

Associated Artworks

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First Day, Tenth Story, Maestro Alberto da Bologna

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

1757

First Day, Frontispiece

Hubert François Gravelot

1757

Second Day, Fifth Story, Andreuccio's Three Accidents in a Night

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

1757

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 146-148, 284, no. 63a (color).

Bibliography

1877

  • Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt. 2): 276, 291 (the set).

1880

  • Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1882, 2: 41, 132 (the set).

1912

  • Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 160 (the set).

1921

  • Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes; marques estampillées et écrites de collections. Amsterdam, 1921: 175, under no. 996 (sale of 1870) (the set).

1923

  • Ricci, Seymour de. The Roederer Library of French Books, Prints, and Drawings of the 18th Century. Philadelphia, 1923: [4-7] (the set).

Inscriptions

signed in pen and black ink below the image at lower right: H.Gravelot inv.; at lower center: II. Journée, Nouvelle 2.

Wikidata ID

Q64574534

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