Literary Illustration with Gentleman and Two Ladies in Interior

Provenance

Sold by The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, to the Art Institute, 1945.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Artist: Hubert François Gravelot / French, 1699-1773
Date: n.d.
Medium: Pen and brown ink and graphite, over red chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 13.9 × 7.7 cm (5 1/2 × 3 1/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Accession no.: 1945.63.4

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