Seated Satyr Leaning Backward [recto]
1758/1765
Artist, French, 1729 - 1765
Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk with stumping, heightened with white on brown laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 50 x 39 cm (19 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)
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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