A Sunlit Landscape with Hilltop Houses

c. 1782

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Artist, French, 1736 - 1810

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink with gray and gray-brown washes over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.8 x 38.4 cm (10 9/16 x 15 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.69.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Dessins Anciens et Modernes, Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin, no. 14.

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 72.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 248-249, 291, no. 108 (color).

Watermarks

D & C BLAUW and VRYHEYT (lion in circle with crown), similar to Churchill 82

Wikidata ID

Q64581249

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