DrawingsFrench18th century

David Hume

1764

Artists

Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeuneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite, stumped, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

diameter: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin, Paris; Charles-Angélique-François Huchet, Comte de la Bédoyère, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 8, 1921, lot 47; Henri Baderou, Paris and Rouen, sold; to Forsyth Wickes, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Forsyth Wickes, inv. no. 1962.150

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