Johann Christian Reinhart

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Johann Christian Reinhart
1761-1847
Two Young Gentlemen Outdoors, One Sketching
ca. 1790-1795
Pen and brown ink and wash over graphite.
12 13/16 x 16 11/16 inches (326 x 425 mm); secondary support: 18 3/8 x 22 1/16 inches (467 x 560 mm); in decorative frame: 21 5/8 x 25 1/2 x 1 inches
Thaw Collection.
2017.210

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Watermark: none visible.

Inscription: 

Inscribed in graphite at lower left, "par J.C. Reinhart, environs de Rome, albino".

Provenance: 
Private collection, France (part of a lot of six large drawings by Reinhart, according to Bruno de Bayser); Galerie de Bayser, Paris; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 320, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 17.

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