The Education of the Virgin, c. 1762

Not on View

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

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.)

2018.67.1

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (artist) French, 1729 - 1765

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

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

Galerie de Bayser

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