Panoramic View across a Terraced Park

1780/1790

Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder

Artist, French, 1739 - 1806

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gouache and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 31 x 46.4 cm (12 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.20


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Owen, Paris (Listed as ‘by tradition M. Coindet, First Secretary of Necker’ [1]); purchased 1935 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.
[1] No information was found on neither Monsieur Coindet, nor Necker.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 89.

1985

  • Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 79, repro.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 250-251, 291, no. 109 (color).

Bibliography

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 346, dK385, fig. 315.

Inscriptions

initialed by the artist in brush and gray wash on the stone wall at left: LM; and again in brush and black wash in the foliage at lower left, LM (now almost invisible)

Wikidata ID

Q64593408


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