Panoramic View across a Terraced Park, 1780/1790

Not on View

Medium

gouache and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 31 x 46.4 cm (12 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1963.15.20

Artists / Makers

Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder (artist) French, 1739 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

initialed by the artist in brush and gray wash on the stone wall at left: LM; and again in brush and black wash in the foliage at lower left, LM (now almost invisible)

Provenance

Richard Owen, Paris (Listed as ‘by tradition M. Coindet, First Secretary of Necker’ [1]); purchased 1935 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.

[1] No information was found on neither Monsieur Coindet, nor Necker.

Associated Names

Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Owen, Richard

Exhibition History

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 89.

1985: Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 79, repro.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 250-251, 291, no. 109 (color).

Bibliography

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 346, dK385, fig. 315.