May Ball, 1763

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with brown and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache, heightened with white gouache on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.6 x 38.8 cm (9 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Accession Number

2000.9.25

Artists / Makers

Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger (artist) French, 1741 - 1814

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist, lower right in pen and brown ink: JM moreau le jeune 176[illeg.]

Provenance

H. H. A. Jossé (his sale, Paris, 28-29 May 1894, no. 42, as attrib. to Slodtz). (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London); The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, 1916, Washington, D.C.; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Chanler, Gertrude Laughlin
Laughlin, Irwin Boyle, The Hon.
Laughlin, Therese Iselin

Exhibition History

1982: Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 22 (as Michel-Ange Slodtz).

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 218-219, 289, no. 94 (color).

Bibliography

1924: Sharp, C.J. and A.P. Oppé. The Dance, An Historical Survey of Dancing in Europe. London, 1924: pl. 52 (as Michel-Ange Slodtz).

1967: Souchal, François. Les Slodtz, sculpteurs et décorateurs du roi (1685-1764). Paris, 1967: 463, 699, no. 190 (as Slodtz).