A Stand of Trees

1797/1798

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

Artist, French, 1750 - 1819

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Artwork overview

Medium

black chalk on laid paper, laid down on old album sheet
Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

sheet: 28.8 × 22.2 cm (11 5/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
mount: 35.6 × 27.8 cm (14 × 10 15/16 in.)
Accession

2018.161.1

Provenance

Private collection, France. (Galerie Nathalie Motte Masselink, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in brown ink: DB; on the mount in pen and brown ink in another hand, an. 6e.

Markings

on the mount, N..D.. (blind stamp) [mark of the mounter and paperseller Niodot Fils, Paris; Lugt 1961a].