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AT-00003034Study for Vignette-Frontispiece in Poncelot's "Principes Generaux pour Servir à l'Education des Enfants", vol. 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, pp. 72-74]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.
Publications
Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds Français (Paris, 1968), 2:468, nos. 200-02, and 10:554, nos. 1207-09. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 72-74. 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. 1763
- Medium
- Pen and black ink over graphite, on gray laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 14.3 × 6.7 cm (5 11/16 × 2 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1945.67.3
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