Navigation (Allegory of the Navy)

1876

Jules-Elie Delaunay

Artist, French, 1828 - 1891

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk with graphite on light brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.99 × 41.59 cm (10 5/8 × 16 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.29.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wilbrod Chabrol [1835-1919]. (Boisgirard Antonini, Drouot, Paris, 19 September 2007, uncatalogued); (Nicolas Schwed, Paris, 2008); private collection, Paris; (Nicolas Schwed, Paris, 2018); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, Nicolas Schwed, Paris, 2008, no. 34.

Inscriptions

by the artist at lower right in graphite: NAVIGATION / à mon ami Chabrol / JElie Delaunay / 1876

You may be interested in

Loading Results