Study for Vignette in Fontenelle's (attr.) "Les Amours de Mirtil", Canto III

Prints and Drawings

c. 1761

Hubert François Gravelot
French, 1699-1773

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Hubert François Gravelot
Title: Study for Vignette in Fontenelle's (attr.) "Les Amours de Mirtil", Canto III
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1751–1773
Medium: Black chalk, on gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 11.5 × 7.2 cm (4 9/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1945.66.1
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Henry Cohen, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1912), p. 77.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds Français (Paris, 1968), 10:554, no. 1113-18.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 74.
Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-century French book Illustration: Drawings by Fragonard and Gravelot from the Rosenbach Museum & Library (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, p. 74]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.

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