Study for an illustration in Tacitus "Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales", Book VI, Vol. 3, Final Study

Prints and Drawings

c. 1768

Hubert François Gravelot
French, 1699-1773

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Artist: Hubert François Gravelot
Title: Study for an illustration in Tacitus "Tibère, ou Les Six Premiers Livres des Annales", Book VI, Vol. 3, Final Study
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 graphite, on gray laid paper, incised for transfer and perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 12 × 7.2 cm (4 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver
Reference Number: 1962.786.19
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Henry Cohen, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1912), p. 972.
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), 10:614, nos. 1593-98.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 95-100.
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. 95-100]. Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.

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