The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

1769

Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger

Artist, French, 1741 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brush and black ink with gray wash over traces of graphite with border line by the artist on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.3 x 8.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.1068

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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


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