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A Peasant Seated in a Shed
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "DB"; upper right, in graphite: "J.J.DB. 180…"; inscribed verso, upper left on mount, in graphite: "Boissieu Jean-Jacques de/1736/1810"; sticker, lower right on mount: "10 JAN 96/Sale 8344/Lot 248"
Provenance
Christie’s, New York, Jan. 10, 1996, lot 248, bought in; sold after sale to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998-19999, checklist 38. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 91, cat. 60 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," March 15 - June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 91, cat. 60 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Jacques de Boissieu / French, 1736-1810
- Date
- 1800/09
- Medium
- Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper, pieced at bottom and laid down on tan wove paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 27 × 37.6 cm (10 11/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.898
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