Study for Vignette-Frontispiece in Charles-Simon Favart's "L'Amitié à l'Epreuve" by Hubert François Gravelot
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Study for Vignette-Frontispiece in Charles-Simon Favart's "L'Amitié à l'Epreuve"

Hubert François Gravelot · c. 1771

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, p. 100]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Henry Cohen, Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1912), p. 373.
  • 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, 1968), 10:626, no. 1671.
  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 100.
  • Kimerly Rorschach, Eighteenth-century French book Illustration: Drawings by Fragonard and Gravelot from the Rosenbach Museum & Library (Philadelphia, 1985), p. 28.

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