Gaiety and Grief
1774/1775
Artist, French, 1715 - 1790
Charles-Nicolas Cochin II
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk with touches of black chalk on laid paper, laid down, with border lines drawn by the artist
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (sheet): 12.7 x 7.9 cm (5 x 3 1/8 in.)
image (to border line): 10.8 x 6.3 cm (4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1987.29.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galerie Cailleux, Paris); acquired 1987 by the NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 234-235, 290, no. 102a (color).
Bibliography
1877
Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt. 1): 123.
1880
Goncourt, Edmond, and Jules de Goncourt. L'art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1884: 2:125.
1912
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 191: col. 455.
1987
Michel, Christian. Charles-Nicolas Cochin et le livre illustré au XVIIIe siècle. Geneva, 1987: 314, no. 152q.
Inscriptions
across bottom in red chalk: L'Allegresse : Le chagrin.; numbered in red chalk at top center: 5; in banner on the thyrsys in red chalk: HILARITAS
Wikidata ID
Q64539642