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AT-00003026Study for Vignette in Fontenelle's (attr.) "Les Amours de Mirtil", Canto III
Provenance
Marquis de Fourquevaulx (not in Lugt), Paris. Emmanuel Bocher (b. 1835?), Paris [Lugt 267ter]. Louis Olry-Roederer (d. 1932, not in Lugt), Rheims. Purchased by The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, 1922 [Joachim 1977, p. 74]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.
Publications
Henry Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1912), p. 77. Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds Français (Paris, 1968), 10:554, no. 1113-18. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 74. Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-century French book Illustration: Drawings by Fragonard and Gravelot from the Rosenbach Museum & Library (Philadelphia, 1985), p. 28.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Hubert François Gravelot / French, 1699-1773
- Date
- c. 1761
- Medium
- Black chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 11.5 × 7.2 cm (4 9/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- crayon
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1945.66.1
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