Young Girl and Boy with a Squirrel, 1765

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Medium

pastel on blue laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 59 × 48.5 cm (23 1/4 × 19 1/8 in.) (measured in frame)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Accession Number

2017.126.1

Artists / Makers

Charles-Norbert Roëttiers (artist) French, 1720 - 1772

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Inscription

lower right in black pastel: Rottiers / filius f. / 1765

Provenance

(sale, Paris, 25 June 1943, as François Roëttiers le Jeune). Private collection, France; (sale, Christie's, Paris, 22 March 2017, no. 28); David H. McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

McDonnell, David H.

Bibliography

1999: Bénézit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. Nouvelle ed. 14 vols. Paris, 1999, vol. 11: 829.

2006: Jeffares, Neil. "Roettiers." Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800. Online edition (n.p.).