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Sébastien-Louis-Guillaume Norblin de la Gourdaine

Castor and Pollux Rescuing Helen, 1818

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Medium

pen and ink with wash over graphite, heightened with white gouache on toned paper

Dimensions

overall: 32.2 x 38.8 cm (12 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2006.152.1

Artists / Makers

Sébastien-Louis-Guillaume Norblin de la Gourdaine (artist) French, 1796 - 1884

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in ink: S: Norblin / 1818

Provenance

(De Bayser S.A., Paris); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie de Bayser

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 94.

2012: Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth-Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 5.

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