An Ornamental Trophy

Hubert François Gravelot

Associated Names
Hubert François Gravelot

Artist, French, 1699 - 1773

A large round shield with a decorative pattern rests in the center, overlapped by a quiver of arrows and a decorative staff, all sketched in pencil on beige paper. A ribbon-like element loops around the objects, and the scene is enclosed within a double-lined border with faint red lines visible. The shield is at the lower center, the quiver to the right, and the staff partially visible at the top left.

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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: 7.4 x 5.3 cm (2 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
    support: 27.9 x 20 cm (11 x 7 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1992.87.17

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: 27; upper left in graphite: 2E; upper left verso in graphite: 8II

Wikidata ID

Q64574692

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