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Jean Jacques François Le Barbier
1738-1826
Album of illustrations for Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper.
Binding: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (318 x 255 mm); leaf: 12 1/16 x 9 7/16 inches (307 x 237 mm)
Gift of Mrs. George Blumenthal.
2006.43:1-107
Notes:
These forty-four sepia wash preparatory drawings, along with twenty-one by Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune (1741-1814) and forty-two by Nicolas André Monsiau (1754-1837) also in the collection, were made for the engravings illustrating volumes 1-3 of the "Ovidius Naso, Publius Les Métamorphoses...", Paris, F. Gay, 1806-1807.
Inscription:
All drawings except frontispiece are signed, "Le Barbier l'ainé".
Provenance:
Pourtalès collection, Paris; sale, Paris, May 1880; Louis Roederer, Rheims; bought in 1923 by the Rosenbach Company from the Olry-Roederer family in Paris; Mrs. George Blumenthal.
Associated names:
Roederer, Louis, former owner.
Blumenthal, George, Mrs., former owner.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
Bibliography:
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 121.
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