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Pierre-Edme Babel: French, probably 1720 - 1775

Rocaille Cartouche with an Eagle
mid-18th century: gray wash with pen and brown ink and traces of graphite on laid paper, laid down on an old mount; 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.); Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund; 2018.57.3; Not on View

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

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