Male Nude Seated on the Ground
1702
Artist, French, 1654 - 1733

Artwork overview
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Medium
black and white chalks on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 32.6 x 39.5 cm (12 13/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2022.40.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Henri Baderou, France [1910 - 1991]. (Neal Fiertag, Paris); purchased 1993 by Donald Stone [1942 - 2020], New York; bequest to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 86-87, 279, no. 34 (color).
Bibliography
2013
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Attribution of the Fauns: Restoring a Group of Trois-crayons Drawings to Louis de Boullogne the Younger." Master Drawings 51 (Winter 2013): 476-477, fig. 8 (color).
Inscriptions
signed and dated in black chalk at lower left: Louis De Boullongne/1702
Watermarks
PL entwined