October, Drawing the Honey from the Beehives, c.1645

Not on View

pen and brown ink with gray wash and white gouache, over graphite on laid paper

overall: 22.7 × 30.1 cm (8 15/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

2022.40.9

Claude Simpol (artist) French, 1666 - 1716

Jacques Stella (artist) French, 1596 - 1657

(Eric Coatelem, Paris); purchased 2001 by Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Stone, Donald

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 56-57, 277, no. 19 (as Jacques Stella)(color).

Jacques Stella (1596-1657). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, and Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. Paris, 2006, 224, under no. 157 (as Jacques Stella).

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Tanging the Bees: A Curious Apiarian Practice in a Drawing by Claude Simpol." Master Drawings 47, no. 4 (Winter, 2009): 443-446.

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington." Burlington Magazine 152 (January 2010): 67, fig. 86.