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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.18
People
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French (Paris 1686 - 1755 Beauvais)
Previously attributed to Caspar Netscher, Dutch (1639-1684)
Title
Woman in a Garden with Figures Seated Under a Trellis in the Distance
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1715
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292908

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and black ink, brown wash and white gouache, over traces of brown and chalk chalk, on gray-brown antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, yellow laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
20 x 20 cm (7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: bottom right, black ink: Galerie Cailleux (their mark, not in Lugt)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sale, Paris, Drouot, 13 December 1963, lot 33 (as Caspar Netscher); Geneviève Aymonier-Ferault, Paris (in 1964); sale, Versailles, Palais des Congrès, 28-29 May 1969, lot 158; Galerie Cailleux, Paris (their mark, not in Lugt); sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995 (as Jean-Baptiste Oudry), sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-213, gift; to Harvard University Art Museum, inv. no. 1999.18

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.18
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hal N. Opperman, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Garland (New York, 1977), vol. II, cat. no. D107, pp. 644, 950, 998, fig. 52, repr.
  • Œuvres de jeunesse de Watteau a Ingres, exh. cat., Galerie Cailleux (Paris, 1985), cat. no. 30, n.p., repr.
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A. 262, p. 426

Exhibition History

  • Œuvres de jeunesse de Watteau a Ingres, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 06/03/1985 - 07/12/1985

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