Seated Satyr Leaning Backward [recto]

1758/1765

Jean-Baptiste Deshays

Artist, French, 1729 - 1765

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with stumping, heightened with white on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50 x 39 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.17.3.a

Associated Artworks

Man Reclining on the Ground and the Corner of a Bed [verso]

Jean-Baptiste Deshays

1758

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1973

  • Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century. William H. Schab Gallery, New York, and tour, 1973-1974, no. 101 (as François Boucher).

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 101 (as François Boucher).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 90 (recto only) (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 162-163, 285, no. 70 (color; recto and verso).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1988

  • Bonnier, Henri. François Boucher. Paris, 1988: 85 (as Boucher).

2008

  • Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 206, no. D.29.

Watermarks

unidentified name resembling ILEPORC (?) 1758 / GDEROIWEN (?)

Wikidata ID

Q64581116

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