DrawingsFrench18th century

Landscape with Figures

18th century

Artists

Claude-Joseph VernetArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk and red chalk wash over graphite and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk and graphite, incised; verso: reddened for transfer

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

14.4 x 20.5 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Provenance

John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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