Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002534Allegory of the Glory of Princes
Provenance
M. Bourguignon de Fabregoules, Aix-en-Provence, to around 1840; given to Charles Joseph Barthélemi Giraud (died 1882), Aix-en-Provence and Paris, around 1840 [according to Lugt 1015]. Flury-Hérard, Paris, to May 1861 [Lugt 1015]; sold, Paris, 13-15 May 1861, Flury-Hérard sale. Alliance des Arts, Paris [Lugt 61]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 February 1970, lot 41. Paul Prouté, France [according to Chicago 1976, exh. cat.]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, to the Art Institute, 1972.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 58, cat. 47 (ill.). 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. 12 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 34-35, cat. 12 (ill.).
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2D7.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre / French, 1713-1789
- Date
- 1770/80
- Medium
- Black chalk, heightened with white on olive paper
- Dimensions
- 52.5 × 39.5 cm (20 11/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund
- Accession no.
- 1972.22
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