Four Actresses in Theatrical Costume
c. 1721
Artist, French, 1673 - 1722

Artwork overview
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Medium
red and gray wash with pen and black ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 14.4 × 20.2 cm (5 11/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.40.46
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
From an album (probably compiled in the 19th century) discovered in a private collection outside Paris c. 2004[1]. (Katrin Bellinger, Munich?). (Galerie de Bayser, Paris); purchased c. 2016 by Donald Stone, New York [1942- 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
[1] See Jennifer Tonkovich, "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): 464. This drawing is from the album but not catalogued by Tonkovich.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Catalogue Biennale, Galerie de Bayser, Paris, 2016, part of no. 4.
Inscriptions
upper right: 32