Imaginary Classical Landscape
c. 1700
Artist, French, 1660 - 1725

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash and white gouache on blue laid paper, laid down on an old mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 23.6 × 40.7 cm (9 5/16 × 16 in.)
mount: 33.4 × 50 cm (13 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2017.85.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collector, France; Mortimer Brandt, New York (not in Lugt, with inv. no. 1489); James and Constance Acquavella, Rochester, NY, 1970-1999; private collection, New York; (Galerie Motte Masselink, Paris); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2023
Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.
Bibliography
2021
Marandet, F. Louis Chéron (Paris, 1655 - Londres, 1725): L'ambition du dessin parfait. Caen, 2021: under no. 33, fig. 33a.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left on mount in pen and ink: francisque Millet; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 2 Dessins/ De La hire; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 25; by later hand along lower left margin (vertically) in graphite: françois Millet
Markings
collector's mark of Mortimer Brandt, stamped in blue ink: M.B-N.Y., in a rectangle
Wikidata ID
Q64593395