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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810
Landscape with Farm Buildings and Figures
Point of brush and black ink, with gray wash, over black chalk on paper.
7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches (188 x 233 mm)
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.
1995.5
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Signed at upper left in black chalk, "J J de Boissieu".
Provenance:
David Jones, Paris.
Summary:
This picturesque landscape is an invented view pieced together from nature studies. Other examples can be seen (such as "Landscape with Cottage"). Weimar, Schlock Museum KK 8595, repr. in "From Callot to Greuze", no. 99 and "Farm in a Landscape with Three Figures", Lexington, University of Kentucky Art Museum, fig. 1). Another similar drawing is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("Farmyard", 1978.411.1; repr. in Bean and Turcic, no. 11).
Associated names:
Jones, David, former owner.
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