Study for Lucain's "La Pharsale", Canto II

Prints and Drawings

c. 1766

Hubert François Gravelot
French, 1699-1773

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Artist: Hubert François Gravelot
Title: Study for Lucain's "La Pharsale", Canto II
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1756–1773
Medium: Graphite, with pen and black ink and touches of brown wash, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 8.9 × 9.7 cm (3 9/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver
Reference Number: 1962.111.8
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Henry Cohen, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1912), p. 662.
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, 1968), 10:595, nos. 1489-96.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 82-91.
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. 82-91]. Mr. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.

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