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    The Family of Saint John the Baptist
    Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. The Family of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1771. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002271

    The Family of Saint John the Baptist

    by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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