DrawingsFrench18th century

A Garden Scene

18th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Nicolas LancretPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

33.7 x 24.9 cm (13 1/4 x 9 13/16 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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