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The Family of Saint John the Baptist
Nicolas Bernard Lépicié · c. 1771
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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