A Boy Wearing a Military Cap

Not on View

Medium

black chalk heightened with white on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.3 x 20.3 cm (9 9/16 x 8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1992.77.1

Artists / Makers

French 18th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on mount by later hand, upper right verso in ball-point pen: Hubert Drousais; on mount by later hand, lower left vero in graphite: 2/0334/41 1/2; on mount by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: D 30377

Marks and Labels

B (Baer coll., Lugt undescribed); GGL (Lugt undescribed)

Provenance

B. Lasquin; (sale Paris, Georges Petit, 7-8 June 1928, no. 53, as François-Hubert Drouais); (P&D Colnaghi, London, 1968-1969); Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976] (his mark, not in Lugt); by descent to Dr. and Mrs. George M. Baer, Atlanta; purchase 1992 by NGA.

Associated Names

Baer, Curtis O.
Baer, George M., Dr. and Mrs.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Galerie Georges Petit

Bibliography

1985: Eric M. Zafran, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O.Bear Collection (exhibition catalogue), Atlanta, the High Museum of Art (not exhibited): 189, no. 155.