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Rocaille Cartouche with an Eagle, mid-18th century

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Medium

gray wash with pen and brown ink and traces of graphite on laid paper, laid down on an old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 43.6 × 27.8 cm (17 3/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
mount: 50.9 × 35.7 cm (20 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2018.57.3

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Edme Babel (artist) French, probably 1720 - 1775

Image Use

by later hand, lower center in graphite: Babel f.

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Rocaille Cartouche with an Eagle, mid-18th century