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An Allegory of the Arts Vanquishing Time, Surmounted by a Medallion Portrait of King Stanislaw August of Poland as Patron of the Arts
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower left, in blue crayon: “158”; lower left, in graphite: “No. 261 / Fers / 165 /15 / Dros / 1594 / Le Brun”; upper right, in graphite: “1358”; lower right, in graphite: “62/44 / 4 be 24 / III”
Provenance
Baron Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836–1909), Prague [stamp (Lugt 2773), verso, lower left, in black]. Sold, Christie’s, Paris, Mar. 22, 2007, part of lot 90. W. M. Brady & Co., New York, 2008; private collection, New York, by Jan. 2009 [Boston 2009]; sold through Stephen Ongpin, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Exhibition history
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Jan. 22–May 17, 2009, cat. 140, pp. 4 (detail color ill.), 89, 137 (color ill.), and 158. New York, W. M. Brady & Co., Old Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Jan. –Feb. 14, 2008, cat. 24, n.p. (color ill.).
Publications
Katarzyna Mikocka-Rachubowa, André Le Brun: “pierwszy rzezbiarz” króla Stanislawa Augusta (Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2010), pp. 446¬–47, no.94. Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Louvre éditions, 2017), p.289.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- André Jean Lebrun / French, 1737–1811
- Date
- after 1780
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on pieced ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary/secondary supports: 45.5 × 64.2 cm (17 15/16 × 25 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2019.138
More by André Jean Lebrun in museum collections
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