
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002271The Family of Saint John the Baptist
Provenance
Germain Seligman, New York [his stamp; not in Lugt]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.
Exhibition history
New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, "Master Drawings," November 5-24, 1962, cat. 22. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 15-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 40, as by Jean Jouvenet. Toronto, Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," 1972, cat. 81, by Pierre Rosenberg. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 21 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 54-55, cat. 23 (ill.).
Publications
Pierre Rosenberg, "Jouvenet Exhibition Review," The Burlington Magazine (1966), p. 444. Pierre Rosenberg, "Lépicié not Jouvenet," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 5 (1970), pp. 86-90 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 37, no. 1G10.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Nicolas Bernard Lépicié / French, 1735-1784
- Date
- c. 1771
- Medium
- Black and white chalk, with stumping, on blue laid paper, squared with black chalk, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- 52.5 × 30.3 cm (20 11/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund
- Accession no.
- 1962.792
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