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AT-00004961Study for the Vignette of Lucretius's "De la Nature des Choses", Vol. II, Book VI
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. 92-95]. Mr. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.
Publications
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, 1933), 2:494, nos. 14, 16-20. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 92-95. 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
- c. 1768
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with graphite and traces of black chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 13.8 × 8.6 cm (5 7/16 × 3 7/16 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.
- 1962.110.7
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