AT-00006165
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The Evening Prayer
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left, in brush and brown watercolor: "J Mallet 1790"; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "no. 11"
Provenance
Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 1, 1949, lot 29. Collection Dillée, Paris; sold, Sotheby's, Paris, Mar. 18–19, 2015, lot 79. Sold by Didier Aaron, London, to the Art Institute, 2015
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Mallet / French, 1759-1835
- Date
- 1790
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 28.8 × 38.6 cm (11 3/8 × 15 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 29.5 × 38.9 cm (11 5/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Accession no.
- 2015.357
More by Jean-Baptiste Mallet in museum collections
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