The Family of Saint John the Baptist by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié
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The Family of Saint John the Baptist

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié · c. 1771

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Germain Seligman, New York [his stamp; not in Lugt]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, "Master Drawings," November 5-24, 1962, cat. 22.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 15-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 40, as by Jean Jouvenet.
  • Toronto, Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," 1972, cat. 81, by Pierre Rosenberg.
  • Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 21 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 54-55, cat. 23 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Pierre Rosenberg, "Jouvenet Exhibition Review," The Burlington Magazine (1966), p. 444.
  • Pierre Rosenberg, "Lépicié not Jouvenet," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 5 (1970), pp. 86-90 (ill.).
  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 37, no. 1G10.

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