Details
| Artist | Dominique Vivant Denon, French, 1747-1826 |
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| Date | ca. 1786 |
| Medium | black chalk and smudging or stumping on off-white laid paper |
| Dimensions | Sheet (diameter): 5 7/8 inches (14.9 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Robert H. Tannahill |
| Accession Number | 34.159.1 |
| Department | Prints, Drawings & Photographs |
| Not On View |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
| Signed | Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: Denon 1786 |
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| Inscriptions | Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: M- Joli [indecipherable] evaluer [?] | des [indecipherable] de la bibliothèque Inscribed, in pen and black ink, vertically along lower edge, verso: JW [or FW? in monogram] 6 |
Provenance
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1934-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1934-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 204, no. 94.
McAllister-Johnson, William. "Figures et allégories du cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, au XVIIIe siècle." Nouvelles de l'estampe, 78 (December 1984): pp. 22-27, p. 25 (fig. 4).
Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, pp. 15-55, no.41 (pl. 131).
Scheyer, Ernst. "French Drawings of the Great Revolution and the Napoleonic Era." The Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 187-204 (figs. 7 and 8).
McAllister-Johnson, William. "Figures et allégories du cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, au XVIIIe siècle." Nouvelles de l'estampe, 78 (December 1984): pp. 22-27, p. 25 (fig. 4).
Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, pp. 15-55, no.41 (pl. 131).
Scheyer, Ernst. "French Drawings of the Great Revolution and the Napoleonic Era." The Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 187-204 (figs. 7 and 8).
