Nine Children Listening to a Girl Tell a Story; A Boy Handing a Purse to a Girl Seated on a Bed, c. 1757

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series Title

Preliminary Drawings for Boccaccio's "Decamerone": vol.3, 21

Medium

pen and gray ink with brown wash on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

overall (to outer framing line): 14.3 x 8.1 cm (5 5/8 x 3 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.782

Artists / Makers

Hubert François Gravelot (artist) French, 1699 - 1773

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center: P.108. / Introduction a la VIII.Journée.; center: H.Gravelot inven.
; and at center above the lower image: Gulfart et la Femme de Gasparin.; lower center: P.113.

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 146-149, 284, no. 63c (color).

Bibliography

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1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 160 (the set).

1921: Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes; marques estampillées et écrites de collections. Amsterdam, 1921: 175, under no. 996 (sale of 1870) (the set).

1923: Ricci, Seymour de. A Checklist of the More Important French Illustrated Books of the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, 1923: [3] (the set).

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