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The Education of the Virgin

c. 1762

Jean-Baptiste Deshays

Associated Names

Jean-Baptiste Deshays

Artist, French, 1729 - 1765

This is a drawing of a scene with three figures kneeling and gesturing towards a cloud-like figure surrounded by light. The setting is indoors with a draped curtain. The style is influenced by the Baroque period, with delicate line work and sepia tones depicting the figures and their interactions.

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Artwork overview

Medium

red chalk with pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, laid down on old mount
Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Dimensions

sheet: 39.4 × 29.7 cm (15 1/2 × 11 11/16 in.)
mount: 47.3 × 37.2 cm (18 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
Accession Number

2018.67.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paris art market, 1998; (De Bayser, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie de Bayser

Bibliography

2008

Bancel, André. Jean-Baptiste Deshays, 1729-1765. Paris, 2008: 268, no. DR 44 (rejected).

Inscriptions

in brown ink, lower right in image: Deshayes; upper left on mount in brown ink: No. 4; lower right on mount in brown ink: No. 3

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