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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.20
People
Jean-Laurent Legeay, French (Paris c. 1710 - 1790 Rome, Italy?)
Title
Sheet of Caricatures
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Roundel of Caricatures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1757
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/146767

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in drawing, lower left, red chalk: J. LE GEAY. INVENT / et fecit 1757
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 609 [last two numbers underlined]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, green ink: 136 B / no
  • inscription: verso, upper center, black ink: J. Le Geay invenit / Anno 1757
  • watermark: laid down--none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Wunder, San Diego, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan, 2002.20

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard P. Wunder, Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, exh. cat., Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT, 1975), cat. no. 115, pp. 69-70, 190
  • Richard P. Wunder, "The Spread of 'Piranesism' to France Through Legeay and Challe", Piranèse et les français, colloque, Villa Medici, Académie de France à Rome, ed. Georges Brunel, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1978), pp. 553-566, pp. 553-66
  • Sonia Couturier, ed., Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2011), cat. no. 82b, pp. 208-209, 236
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 506-n.11
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 71, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury, 01/05/1975 - 02/26/1975
  • Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 10/21/2011 - 01/02/2012

Verification Level

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