DrawingsFrench17th century

Road Through a Wooded Landscape

c. 1649

Artists

Gaspard DughetArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Pen with brown ink, brown wash, and traces of red chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount in cream antique laid paper with blue laid paper strips adhered to face

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

30.5 x 28 cm (12 x 11 in.)

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1852, lower center); his sale, Drouot (Basan), Paris, 15 November 1775-30 January 1776, possibly part of lot 1332; Augustin Menageot, Paris; sale, Drouot, Paris, 13 December 1963, lot 10; W. R. Jeudwine, London; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Anonymous Donor), 1964.82

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