Naiads and Dolphins
1762/1765
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre
Artist, French, 1713 - 1789
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash and white gouache on buff laid paper
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in Memory of his Brother, Neil Phillips
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Dimensions
sheet: 23.6 × 32.1 cm (9 5/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2018.76.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lesur and Aaron 2009, no. D395
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Aguttes, Neuilly, 12 June 2001, no. 10); Private collection, New York; (sale, Christie's, New York, 27 January 2016, no. 70); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Arts, London); purchased 2018 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2009
Lesur, Nicolas, and Olivier Aaron. Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714 - 1789 . (Paris, 2009): 446, no. D395.
2018
Ongpin, Stephen. Master Drawings 2018). (London, 2018): no. 14 (color).
Inscriptions
lower right in red chalk: f Boucher