DrawingsFrench18th century

Pastoral Subject (Seated Women and Children)

18th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

9 x 17.6 cm (3 9/16 x 6 15/16 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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