A Fashionable Couple Seen from Behind

c. 1810

Philibert d'Amiens de Ranchicourt

Artist, French, 1781 - 1825

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk on yellow paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 59.2 x 45.2 cm (23 5/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Etude Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 April 1997, no. 202); (Galerie de Loës, Geneva); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Vernet to Villon: Nineteenth Century French Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Art. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 2012, no. 2.

Bibliography

2000

  • Galerie de Loës. Dessins anciens du xvième au xxiéme siecle. Geneva, 2000: no. 16.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 104114 / (not deciphered); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 104114 / (not deciphered)

Markings

lower left: signature stamp of the artist (not in Lugt)

Wikidata ID

Q64619419

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