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Study of Bucephalus for the Relief "Alexander and Diogenes"
by Pierre Puget
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and dark brown ink: "Puget" [possibly in Puget’s hand]; lower left, in pen and brown ink: "N:13"; verso on mount, upper center, in graphite and blue crayon: "42 E"; center, in blue crayon: "22" [encircled]; lower right, in graphite: "1" [encircled]
Provenance
Cornish collection, London, to 1916 [according to former label on verso]. Mrs. Sandeman, London, from 1916. Lady Anderson, London; sold, Christie's, London, Dec. 9, 1986, lot 140, to Gabrielle Kopelman, New York; sold, Sotheby's, New York, Jan. 21, 2003, lot 62, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Musée de Marseille, Pierre Puget: Peintre, sculpteur, architecte, 1620–1694, 1994, cat. 74. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 48 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Publications
Lorenzo Piqueras, Dessins français du XVIIe siècle dans les collections publiques françaises, exh. cat. (Musée du Louvre/Réunion des Museés Nationaux, 1993), under cat. 118.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre Puget / French, 1620–1694
- Date
- 1675/76
- Medium
- Red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan laminate board
- Dimensions
- 36.3 × 25.7 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.90
More by Pierre Puget in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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