Venus and the Graces Crowning Thémire, 1795/1796

Not on View

Medium

pen and black and brown ink with brown wash over traces of graphite, on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 21 x 14.6 cm (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Number

2008.117.1

Artists / Makers

Jean François Pierre Peyron (artist) French, 1744 - 1814

Image Use

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Inscription

signed at lower right in ink: P. Peyron; by later hand(?) lower edge in pen and gray ink: Des que Thémire parut Vénus ne regarda qu'elle. Elle appela les Graces. Allez la couron /ener leur dit-elle; de toutes les beautés que je vois c'est la seule qui vous ressemble. By a different hand in pen and gray ink at lower right: Temple de Gnide

Provenance

Private collection, France; Didier Aaron et Cie, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, MA, 1999 (his mark, an H in a diamond printed in black on the mount, not in Lugt); gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Didier Aaron
Horvitz Collection

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 266-267, 292, no. 115 (color).

Bibliography

1983: Rosenberg, Pierre, and Udolpho van de Sandt. Pierre Peyron, 1744 - 1814. Paris, 1983: 138, under no. 147.3 (as "disparu")