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AT-00004999Study for an illustration in Tacitus "Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales", Book VI, Vol. 3, 2nd Study
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. 95-100]. Mr. and Mrs. 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. 972. 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), 10:614, nos. 1593-98. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 95-100. 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, over graphite and traces of black chalk, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 11.9 × 7.2 cm (4 11/16 × 2 7/8 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.
- 1962.786.18
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