Secret derobé à un ami (Secret Stolen from a Friend)

1760s

Ange-Laurent de Lalive de Jully

Associated Names
Ange-Laurent de Lalive de Jully

Artist, French, 1725 - 1779

This drawing features a mythological figure seated on a barrel or drum, with a smaller scene framed inside. The central figure is depicted as a classical or mythological character, adorned with leaves and vines and holding a tray in one hand and a bottle or jug in the other. The figure's lower part forms an arch around another scene within a circular frame that shows an elegantly dressed person seated inside a richly decorated interior. The drawing has intricate line work characteristic of engraving, and its monochromatic palette emphasizes the detail in the figures and the textures of the drapery and barrel.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper, inlaid in nineteenth-century paper mount

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37.6 × 28.1 cm (14 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
    mount: 37.5 × 28 cm (14 3/4 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.124.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1800) no. 42

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York); purchased in 1982 by Victor Carlson [1934-2018], Chicago; (sale, Leslie Hindman Auctions, Chicago, 28 June 2019, no.148); (Susan Schulman, New York); purchased by NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1700): no. 42

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left: de La Live de J. Sculp.; in plate, below image, at center: Secret derobé à un ami; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Bacchus automate(?) / x22;

Watermarks

1742

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