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Jean Bérain
1640-1711
Right half of a Transformation Scene
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash and watercolor, on paper.
11 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (295 x 210 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:222
Notes:
This sheet is a working design for a stage set featuring a central structure, the right half of which has been delineated, that frames a view to the sun being revealed by the parting clouds. The exuberant combination of architecture and nature is divided into units by the vertical dotted lines which correspond to the scale below. While Donald Oenslager associated the sheet with Berain, it is more likely by one of his contemporaries.
Provenance:
Eugene Calando (active 1850-1899), Paris; A.J. Fries, New York; acquired in 1960 by Donald M. Oenslager (1902-1975), New York; by descent to his wife, Mary P. Oenslager (1897-1995), New York.
Associated names:
Calando, Eugene, former owner.
Fries, A. J., former owner.
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.
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