Monsieur and Madame Blizet with Monsieur Le Roy the Actor, c. 1765

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache over red and black chalks with touches of graphite on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 27.8 x 18.5 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson in memory of Sir Geoffrey Agnew

Accession Number

1987.56.1

Artists / Makers

Louis de Carrogis, called Carmontelle (artist) French, 1717 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

all inscriptions on verso by unknown hands, across top verso in brown ink over graphite (partially obliterated): Mr et mad Bliz...t mr L..roi acte[...]; in brown ink just below that: Blizet; in graphite below that: par Carmontell; across center verso in graphite: M. & Mme Blizet et Mr LeRoy, / acteur-; lower center in graphite: 11 dess; lower right verso in graphite: 85.

Provenance

A. Firmin-Didot (1790-1876)(Lugt 119)(Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 April-12 May 1877, no. 85); (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Ruth Carter Stevenson for the NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Firmin-Didot, Ambroise
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 180-181, 286, no. 79 (color).

Bibliography

1959: William H. Schab Gallery. Master Prints and Drawings of Five Centuries. Catalogue 67. New York, [1985?]: no.10.