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French School
The Rooster, the Cat, and the Young Mice
Gouache, watercolor with gum arabic and graphite, on wove paper.
9 9/16 x 7 1/2 inches (242 x 190 mm)
Gift of Sidney Katz.
1983.11
Notes:
Copy after Nicolas-Edward Gabé (1814-1865).
Inscription:
Inscribed in surround, in pen and brown ink, over graphite "LE COCHET LE CHAT et le SOURICEAU"; at lower left, in pen and black ink, "... é de la collection de M. M. Réguilart-Roussel & Chocqueel"; at the right of surround, in a different hand, "a Maurice d'apres Gabé".
Provenance:
Réguilart-Roussel; Chocqueel; Paul Prouté, Paris; Sidney Katz, New York.
Associated names:
Gabé, Edward, 1814-1865, after.
Réguilart-Roussel, former owner.
Chocqueel, former owner.
Prouté, Paul, former owner.
Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 261.
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