Design for a Decorative Panel with Two Sirens Holding a Vase Embellished with Dolphins and other Decorative Motifs, 1777

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.31 × 18.73 cm (18 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell

Accession Number

2022.14.3

Artists / Makers

Gilles Paul Cauvet (artist) French, 1731 - 1788

Image Use

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Provenance

Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn, Paris [1870 – 1939]; by descent until 1995; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29 November 1995, no. 105). Kate de Rothschild (born 1949), London, in 1996. Horace Wood Brock; (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2018); David McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2021.

Associated Names

Brock, Horace W., Mr.
Béhague, Martine Marie Pol de
Drouot, Hôtel
McDonnell, David H.
Rothschild, Kate de
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

Exhibition History

1996: Master Drawings, Kate de Rothschild at Didier Aaron, Inc., New York, 1996, no. 23.

2000: Classic Taste: Drawings and Decorative Art from the Collection of Horace Brock, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2000.

2009: Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 2009, no. 154.

Watteau to Gauguin, French Drawings 1700 - 1900, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, no. 27a.