French Troops before Salins and the Surrounding Hills

1668/1670

Adam Frans van der Meulen

Artist, French, born Flanders, 1632 - 1690

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk over black chalk surrounding red chalk counterproof, on two joined sheets of laid paper, incised overall for transfer and laid down

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48.8 x 132.8 cm (19 3/16 x 52 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.88.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

French private collection until 2004; (sale, Piasa, Paris, 19 March 2004, no. 42, as attributed to Van der Meulen); (to DidierAaron, Ltd., London); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 72-73, 278, no. 27 (color).

Bibliography

2010

  • Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.

Wikidata ID

Q64533265

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