DrawingsFrench18th century

First Project for the Funerary Monument of Cardinal de Fleury

1743

Artists

Edme BouchardonArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, joined and pieced with the artist's corrections on seven additional irregular pieces of the same paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a Mariette mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

43 × 30.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 in.)

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1852); his estate sale, Basan, Paris, 30 January, 1776, part of lot 1120, sold; to Avaulez; Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon de Fabergoules, Aix-en-Provence, sold; to Charles-Joseph-Barthélémy Giraud, Aix-en-Provence, sold; to Prosper Flury-Hérard, Paris (his mark, L.1015); his sale, Delbergue-Cormot, Paris, 13 May 1861, lot 42, sold; to Blaisot; sale, Christie’s, London, July 4, 1995, lot 121, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 1999.19

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