Two Angels in Flight

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "V J (?) or 99 (?)"

Exhibition history

Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, XVIIe siècle: La passsion d'un amateur, 1995, cat. 41. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 49 (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

A. Chéreau, "Charles de La Fosse et le grand décor (1636-1716), 'M.A. thesis'" (Université de Paris, 1992), no. 20C. Paul Vercier, "Trois dessins de Charles de La Fosse pour la Chapelle du château de Versailles, 'Versalia 3'" (2000), p. 134. fig. 3. Jo Hedley, "Toward a New Century: Charles de La Fosse as a Draftsman, 'Master Drawings 39'" (2001), p. 258 n. 64. Clémentine Gustin Gomez, "Charles de la Fosse 1636-1716: Catalogue raisonné" (Faton, 2006), vol. 2, p. 197, no. D48.

Quick Overview

Artist: Charles de la Fosse / French, 1636–1716
Date: 1707/10
Medium: Red chalk, with touches of black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on tan laid paper
Dimensions: 22.8 × 26.5 cm (9 × 10 7/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: drawings (visual works)
Place: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Accession no.: 2022.69

Provenance

Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 4, 1981, lot 47. La Motte de Broös, Paris. Vicomte de L.; sold, Piasa/Drouot Richelieu, Mar. 22, 2002, lot 44. Sold, C.G. Boener/Artemis Fine Arts, New York, Jan. 1, 2003 ["Old Master Drawings", cat. 23], to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

More by Charles de la Fosse in museum collections

St. John the Evangelist
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c. 1700–1702 · Drawing
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Gentleman Seated in an Armchair
Charles de la Fosse
late 17th century–early 18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019364
Head of a Young Girl and Studies of Hands and of her Right Foot
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n.d. · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019365
Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Charles de la Fosse
ca. 1678 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019366

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Two Angels in Flight

Inscriptions

Quick Overview

Provenance

More by Charles de la Fosse in museum collections

St. John the Evangelist

Gentleman Seated in an Armchair

Head of a Young Girl and Studies of Hands and of her Right Foot

Sacrifice of Iphigenia