DrawingsFrench18th century

Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne

18th century

Artists

Louis-Félix de La RueArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and brown wash over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

15.8 × 21.2 cm (6 1/4 × 8 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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