The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
1769
Artist, French, 1741 - 1814
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brush and black ink with gray wash over traces of graphite with border line by the artist on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 13.3 x 8.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.1068
Associated Artworks
See all 36 artworksAlbum of Preliminary Drawings and Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide" (volume 7)
Various Artists
1767
Apres le festin donne aux noces de Pirithous ...
Charles Eisen
1768
Polyphème après avoir chanté les louanges de Galatée l'apperçoit aux pieds du Rocher qui s'entretenoit avec Acis
Simon Charles Miger
1769
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, no.
Bibliography
1877
Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt.1): 33, 40; 1 (pt. 2); 199-200, 211, 286, 293, 358; 2 (pt. 1): 399-400, 402-403, 411, 426-427, 459; 2 (pt. 2): 687 (the set of Metamorphoses drawings).
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. 772 (the set of Metamorphoses drawings).
1923
Ricci, Seymour de. A Checklist of the More Important French Illustrated Books of the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, 1923: [21] (the set of Metamorphoses drawings).
Inscriptions
signed and dated in pen and black ink below the border line at lower left: J. M. moreau Le Jeune 1769
Wikidata ID
Q64581586