Marin Cureau de La Chambre
c. 1656
Artist, French, 1623 - 1678
Robert Nanteuil
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite with scraping on vellum
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 13.9 x 10 cm (5 1/2 x 3 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.9130
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald, Alverthorpe, PA, 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1935
Master Drawings: selected from the museums and private collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Gallery, NY, 1935, no. 44, repro.
1943
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 86 and 88-89, repro.
1951
French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.
1955
The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.
1959
French Drawings from American Collections Clouet to Matisse. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959, no. 27.
1972
French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th centuries in North American Collections. Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972, no. 95 (Pierre Rosenberg).
1985
Robert Nanteuil: Portrait Engraver to the Sun King. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1985, no. 19.
1989
From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1989, no. 104 (Hilliard Goldfarb).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 68-69, 278, no. 25 (color).
Bibliography
1924
Bouvy, Eugene. Nanteuil. Paris, 1924: 170.
1957
Fromrich, Yane. "Robert Nanteuil Dessinateur et Pastelliste." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 49 (1957): 212, 213, fig. 4.
1982
Fine, Ruth. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982: 125, under no.41, fig.41a.
1992
Eaves, Morris. The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1992: 218, fig. 4.28.
Wikidata ID
Q64629025