Title Cartouche for a Map of the Chateau and Village of Le Plessis aux Bois

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Medium

graphite, incised for transfer on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

sheet: 8.1 x 9 cm (3 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
support: 28 x 19.7 cm (11 x 7 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

Accession Number

1992.87.21

Artists / Makers

Hubert François Gravelot (artist) French, 1699 - 1773

Image Use

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Inscription

center in graphite: PLAN / DU CHATEAU / ET / VILLAGE / DU PLESSIS / AUX BOIS; by later hand on support, upper left in graphite: D; by later hand on support, lower right verso in graphite: II7

Provenance

Marquis de Fourquevaulx; Emmanuel Bocher (born 1835), Paris; Louis Olry-Roederer, Reims; by inheritance to Olry-Roederer Family, Paris, by 1912; Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York; Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992, to NGA

Associated Names

Bocher, Emmanuel
Fourquevaulx, Marquis de
Goldschmidt, Inc., Lucien
Liebman, Arthur, Estate of
Olry-Roederer, Louis