DrawingsFrench18th century

Allegory of Reims

c. 1768

Artists

Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeuneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk and touches of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

26.4 × 40.1 cm (10 3/8 × 15 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Sale, Drouot (Tajan), Paris, 18 May 2006, lot 69; Galerie Talabardon, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund, inv. no. 2007.137

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