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Claude Louis Desrais
1746-1816
Design for Book Illustration: Man Seated on Ground Writing or Sketching with Group of Men and Women; Carriage and Horses in Background. Verso: Three studies of cows
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: black chalk.
5 5/8 x 3 15/16 inches (143 x 102 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Germain Seligman, Charlene Engelhard, and Mrs. Julius Fleischmann.
1981.114
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Watermark: none.
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Numbered on verso in graphite at lower right corner, "100".
Provenance:
Baskett & Day, London; Richard Day Ltd., London.
Associated names:
Seligman, Germain, Mrs., donor.
Engelhard, Charlene, donor.
Fleischmann, Julius, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 253.
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