DrawingsFrench17th century

Studies for the Archangel Raphael

c. 1645

Artists

Eustache Le SueurArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk with traces of white gouache on light-tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.4 × 30 cm (8 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Jean Gigoux, Paris (without his mark, L.1164); Henri Baderou, Rouen; Germain Seligman, New York (his mark, L.3863, lower left); R.M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara (by 1978); Seiden and de Cuevas, Inc., New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, The Melvin R. Seiden Fund and Louis Haskell Daly Fund, 1984.591

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