c. 1791
32 x 17 cm (12 5/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Duc de Rivoli; his sale, Me Petit Laneuville, "expert," Paris, April 18-19, 1834, no. 60 (as "L'Amour admirant le buste de la Sagesse"); M.G. . . (per illegible inscription on back of cardboard support); Pierre-Jules Mène, by 1872; his son-in-law Auguste Nicholas Cain, by 1884; his son Georges Cain, Paris, by 1900; Mme Georges Can, by 1922; Cain sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 9-10, 1939, no. 68 (as "Le Génie de la Liberté ou La Sagesse"); acquired through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1939 (Fr 20,000); his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Watercolor, gouache and black ink, on colored (?) antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and red chalk
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and white chalk on discolored blue antique laid paper
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18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk counterproof reworked with brown chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream wove paper
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink, and graphite
18th centuryFrenchBlack and red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk
18th centuryFrenchBound folio volume, three-quarters green parchment binding, green marbled boards, rubbed at all edges, upper cover seperated at spine. Inscribed in black ink along spine: Dessins. The folios are off-white modern laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack and brown ink, gray wash, over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised
17th-18th centuryFrenchBrown ink on oiled, thin wove paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchRed chalk on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchPen with black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
17th-18th centuryFrenchWatercolor and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
18th centuryFrench