DrawingsFrench18th century

Woman in a Garden with Figures Seated Under a Trellis in the Distance

c. 1715

Artists

Jean-Baptiste OudryArtist

Caspar NetscherPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown and black ink, brown wash and white gouache, over traces of brown and chalk chalk, on gray-brown antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, yellow laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

20 x 20 cm (7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Sale, Paris, Drouot, 13 December 1963, lot 33 (as Caspar Netscher); Geneviève Aymonier-Ferault, Paris (in 1964); sale, Versailles, Palais des Congrès, 28-29 May 1969, lot 158; Galerie Cailleux, Paris (their mark, not in Lugt); sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995 (as Jean-Baptiste Oudry), sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-213, gift; to Harvard University Art Museum, inv. no. 1999.18

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