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AT-00004926Study for a second edition, never published, of Colle's "La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV", Act III, Scene 10
Provenance
Colonel Charles de la Bédoyère (1786-1815), Paris. M. Rouquette (not in Lugt) [Fonds Français, pp. 594-95]. 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. 77-82]. Mr. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.
Publications
Henry Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1912), p. 247. Seymour de Ricci, The Roederer Library of French Books: Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia, 1923), n.p. Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds Français (Paris, 1968),10:594-95, nos. 1483-87. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 77-82. Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-Century French Book Illustration (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
- before 1766
- Medium
- Black chalk, with pen and black ink, heightened with touches of white chalk, on oval-shaped gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter moounted on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.7 × 15.1 cm (7 × 6 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver
- Accession no.
- 1960.853.8
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