Monsieur and Madame Blizet with Monsieur Le Roy the Actor
c. 1765
Artist, French, 1717 - 1806
Louis de Carrogis, called Carmontelle
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and gouache over red and black chalks with touches of graphite on laid paper; laid down
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Credit Line
Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson in memory of Sir Geoffrey Agnew
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Dimensions
overall: 27.8 x 18.5 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1987.56.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
A. Firmin-Didot (1790-1876)(Lugt 119)(Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 April-12 May 1877, no. 85); (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Ruth Carter Stevenson for the NGA, 1987.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 180-181, 286, no. 79 (color).
Bibliography
1959
William H. Schab Gallery. Master Prints and Drawings of Five Centuries. Catalogue 67. New York, [1985?]: no.10.
Inscriptions
all inscriptions on verso by unknown hands, across top verso in brown ink over graphite (partially obliterated): Mr et mad Bliz...t mr L..roi acte[...]; in brown ink just below that: Blizet; in graphite below that: par Carmontell; across center verso in graphite: M. & Mme Blizet et Mr LeRoy, / acteur-; lower center in graphite: 11 dess; lower right verso in graphite: 85.
Wikidata ID
Q64593400