Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

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Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810
Double-Arched Bridge
1776
Brush and gray wash. Verso: outline sketch in graphite of mountain and trees.
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (156 x 235 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 119b
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Signed and dated at lower right, in graphite, "DB 1776"; inscribed by the artist at lower left, "pont De Dorcieu (?)".

Provenance: 
Stadelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt (Lugt 2356); William Mayor (d. 1874), (Lugt 2799); Charles Fairfax Murray; J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark, see Lugt 1509). Bibliography: Hattis 1977, no. 28a, repr.
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As Pierre Rosenberg noted, Boissieu made at least one other drawing of this bridge in the village of Dorcieu near Lyon. That drawing, now in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (Hattis 1977, no. 28a, repr.) shows the bridge from the left side of the embankment.

Associated names: 

Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

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