Le Lutrin: A Night Scene with Boirude, Brontin, and L'Amour Surprised by an Owl Flying Out of a Lectern

c. 1718

Bernard Picart

Artist, French, 1673 - 1733

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer with the verso blackened, and the border on an attached sheet of paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 29.5 × 20.4 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.98.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly Curt Otto (c. 1880 - 1929). (sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 November 1929, part of no. 167); purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam (Lugt 4617); (sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 May 2015, no. 2); (via Pictura Fine Arts Amsterdam BV); purchased by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: B. Picart fecit

Wikidata ID

Q64537331


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