Study for the Vignette-Frontispiece of Lucretius's "De la Nature des Choses", Book III

Prints and Drawings

c. 1768

Hubert François Gravelot
French, 1699-1773

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Artist: Hubert François Gravelot
Title: Study for the Vignette-Frontispiece of Lucretius's "De la Nature des Choses", Book III
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1758–1773
Medium: Pen and black ink, over black chalk and traces of graphite, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 14.3 × 8.7 cm (5 11/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver
Reference Number: 1962.110.3
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Seymour de Ricci, The Roederer Library of French Books: Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia, 1923), n.p.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds Français (Paris, 1933), 2:494, nos. 14, 16-20.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 92-95.
Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-Century French Book Illustration (Philadelphia, 1985), p. 28.

Marquis de Fourquevaulx (not in Lugt), Paris. Emmanuel Bocher (b. 1835?), Paris [Lugt 267ter]. Louis Olry-Roederer (d. 1932, not in Lugt), Rheims. Purchased by The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, 1922 [Joachim, 1977, pp. 92-95]. Mr. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.

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