Rococo Wall Design with a Fountain and Swans [verso]
c. 1729
Artist, French, 1695 - 1736
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk and red chalk counterproof on 2 joined sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.9 x 23.2 cm (9 x 9 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1996.25.1.b
Associated Artworks
A Comic Actor Dressed as a Gentleman [recto]
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater
1729
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Camille Groult [1837-1908]; (sale, Paris, 18 December 1941, lot 39);[1] Jacques Mathey, Paris, by 1957; (sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 198); purchased by NGA, 1996.
[1] Provenance in Christie's 10 January 1996 sale catalogue indicates this was lot 39 in a Paris sale on 18 December 1941. Research has uncovered only one Hotel Drouot sale on that date, and lot 39 in that sale catalogue does not correspond in title, dimensions nor medium. There is nothing in the object file to clarify this discrepancy.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by later hand, center right verso in graphite, erased: 24 / 20 / 10 / 120
Watermarks
crescent moon (partial watermark)
Wikidata ID
Q64581142