Hubert François Gravelot

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Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773
Design for a Title Page to a Book of Poetry(?)
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over graphite, touched with white chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
5 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches (141 x 82 mm)
Gift of John F. Fleming.
1968.15:29
Notes: 

Gravelot's design probably was intended to serve as title page illustration although a related publication has yet to be identified. A male figure is shown seated in the foreground at right, flanked by two putti; a circular temple with a statue appears in the background, with a bust of a man on a pedestal, surrounded by flying putti, at left.

Provenance: 
Marie-Joseph-Colombe-Henri-Denis Beccaria de Pavie, Marquis de Fourquevaux (1762-1841), Fourquevaux, France; Emmanuel Bocher (1835-1919), Paris; Léon Olry-Roederer (1869-1932), Paris; A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia; John Fleming (1910-1987), New York.
Associated names: 

Fourquevaux, Joseph de Beccarie de Pavie, marquis de, 1762-1841, former owner.
Bocher, Emmanuel, 1835-1919, former owner.
Olry-Roederer, Léon, 1869-1932, former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Fleming, John F. (John Francis), 1910-1987, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Kraemer, Ruth S. "Drawings by Gravelot in the Morgan Library." Master drawings, XX (Spring 1982), p. 14, no. 52, reproduced plate 18a.

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Gravelot, Hubert François
School: 
French
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints