Young Girl and Boy with a Squirrel
1765
Artist, French, 1720 - 1772
Artwork overview
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Medium
pastel on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 59 × 48.5 cm (23 1/4 × 19 1/8 in.) (measured in frame)
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Accession
2017.126.1
Artwork history & notes
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
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.).
Inscriptions
lower right in black pastel: Rottiers / filius f. / 1765
Wikidata ID
Q64539646