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François-André Vincent

The Drawing Lesson, 1777

Not on View

Medium

brush and brown wash over graphite on cream laid paper, laid down, with a framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

sheet: 32.5 x 37.7 cm (12 13/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
overall (

framed): 57.2 x 61.6 cm (22 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Partial and Promised Gift

Accession Number

2000.99.1

Artists / Makers

François-André Vincent (artist) French, 1746 - 1816

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Inscription

by the artist at lower left in brown ink: Vincent 1777.

Provenance

Paul Cailleux, Paris (stamp at lower right, not in Lugt), and by descent; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1997; private collection; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 2000; Private collection; partial and promised gift.

Associated Names

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Nixon, Diane

Exhibition History

1947: La Suède et Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 1947, no. 533 ("on deposit at the Institut Tessin, Paris").

1950: French Master Drawings of the 18th Century, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1950, no. 88.

1951: Le dessin français de Watteau à Prud'hon, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1951, no. 147.

2000: Art for the Nation:Collecting for a New Century, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2000, 194-195.

2007: Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no. 65 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 230-231, 289, no. 100 (color).

2012: Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 14, 78, no. 74 (not reprod.).

Bibliography

1948: Lundberg, Gunnar W. "La Suède et Paris," Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 17, nos. 2-3, October 1948, 63, fig. 30.

1949: Sutton, Denys. French Drawings of the 18th Century. London, 1949: 60, pl. LVI.

1952: Boucher, François. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Lausanne, 1952: xviii, 178, pl. 123.

1983: Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. "De Fragonard à Vincent." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Année 1981 1983: 107, 109, fig. 8.

1987: Roland Michel, Marianne. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Fribourg, 1987: 27, 106, fig. 36.

1988: Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. François-André Vincent, 1746-1816. Paris, 1988: no. 27.

1990: J. H. Fragonard et H. Robert a Roma. Exh. cat. Villa Medici, Rome, 1990-1991: under no. 170, fig. 170a.

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66.