Study for the Vignette-Frontispiece of Lucretius's "De la Nature des Choses", Book I by Hubert François Gravelot
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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

  1. 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.

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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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