The Education of the Virgin
c. 1762
Artist, French, 1729 - 1765
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk with pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, laid down on old mount
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
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Dimensions
sheet: 39.4 × 29.7 cm (15 1/2 × 11 11/16 in.)
mount: 47.3 × 37.2 cm (18 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.67.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paris art market, 1998; (De Bayser, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2008
Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 268, no. DR 44 (rejected).
Inscriptions
in brown ink, lower right in image: Deshayes; upper left on mount in brown ink: No. 4; lower right on mount in brown ink: No. 3