Double Cartouche with Two Heads and Symbols of Fame and Folly

Hubert François Gravelot

Artist, French, 1699 - 1773

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite, incised for transfer on laid paper; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 6.4 x 7.5 cm (2 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.)
    support: 19.9 x 28 cm (7 13/16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.87.15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marquis de Fourquevaulx; Emmanuel Bocher (born 1835), Paris; Louis Olry-Roederer, Reims; by inheritance to Olry-Roederer Family, Paris, by 1912; Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York; Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992, to NGA

Associated Names

Inscriptions

the following are by later hand and are on the support: upper right in graphite: 28; upper left in graphite: 2C; lower right verso in graphite: II5

Wikidata ID

Q64574690

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