The Potager of the Hôtel de Valentinois in Passy

c. 1780

Nicolas Pérignon

Artist, French, 1726 - 1782

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gouache over graphite on linen

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (oval): 44.2 x 52.7 cm (17 3/8 x 20 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.23

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1935 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Blessed Are the Peace Makers: A Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Treaty of Paris. National Portrait Gallery. Washington, 1983, 18 (James G. Barber and Frederick S. Voss).

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. 81, repro.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 242-243, 290, no. 105 (color).

Bibliography

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 345, dK379, fig.308.

1983

  • Martindale, Meredith. "Le Duc de Valentinois: Un Prince philosophe à Passy au XVIIIe siècle." Annales Monégasques, no. 7, 1983, 157 (reprod.).

1988

  • Martindale, Meredith. "Les récentes acquisitions des musées nationaux: Blérancourt, Musée de la Coopérative franc-américaine." Revue du Louvre no. 2 (1988): 160.

1990

  • Bunzl, Yvonne tan and Kate de Rothschild. Master Drawings. London, 1990: under no. 29.

Wikidata ID

Q64534177

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