Imaginary Classical Landscape, c. 1700

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash and white gouache on blue laid paper, laid down on an old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 23.6 × 40.7 cm (9 5/16 × 16 in.)
mount: 33.4 × 50 cm (13 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2017.85.1

Artists / Makers

Louis Chéron (artist) French, 1660 - 1725

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left on mount in pen and ink: francisque Millet; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 2 Dessins/ De La hire; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 25; by later hand along lower left margin (vertically) in graphite: françois Millet

Marks and Labels

collector's mark of Mortimer Brandt, stamped in blue ink: M.B-N.Y., in a rectangle

Provenance

Private collector, France; Mortimer Brandt, New York (not in Lugt, with inv. no. 1489); James and Constance Acquavella, Rochester, NY, 1970-1999; private collection, New York; (Galerie Motte Masselink, Paris); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Acquavella, James and Constance
Brandt, Mortimer
Galerie Motte Masselink

Exhibition History

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2021: Marandet, F. Louis Chéron (Paris, 1655 - Londres, 1725): L'ambition du dessin parfait. Caen, 2021: under no. 33, fig. 33a.