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Study for the Vignette-Frontispiece of Lucretius's "De la Nature des Choses", Book I
Hubert François Gravelot · c. 1768
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marquis de Fourquevaulx (not in Lugt), Paris. Emmanuel Bocher (b. 1835?), Paris [Lugt 267ter]. Louis Olry-Roederer (d. 1932, not in Lugt), Rheims. Purchased by The Rosenbach Company, Philadelphia, 1922 [Joachim, 1977, pp. 92-95]. Mr. Louis H. Silver, Wilmette, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1959.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Seymour de Ricci, The Roederer Library of French Books: Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century (Philadelphia, 1923), n.p.
- Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du fonds Français (Paris, 1933), 2:494, nos. 14, 16-20.
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 92-95.
- Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-Century French Book Illustration (Philadelphia, 1985), p. 28.
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