DrawingsFrench17th-18th century

Latona and the Peasants of Lycia

c. 1721

Artists

François Le MoyneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper, laid down on heavy off-white laid paper

Culture

French

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.6 × 37.1 cm (8 7/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Provenance

L. D. Lempereur, Paris (L. 1740). Lempereur's dates: 1701-1740 Silvestre(?), sold in Paris, 1811. Sale, February 28, 1811, no. 381 (possibly the drawing referred to by Bordeaux, 1984, under no. 30, as in this sale). Charles Gasc, Paris (L. 543). Charles Gasc, ca. 1850, Paris David & Constance Yates, New York. Sotheby's, New York, consigned by David and Constance Yates, sold to Vermeer Associates Limited, 1993. no. 92, repr. Vermeer Associates Limited, purchased from Sotheby's, New York, 1993, sold to HUAM, 1993. on long-term loan to HUAM since 1993

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