Claude Louis Desrais
1746-1816
Design for Book Illustration: Man Seated on Ground Writing or Sketching with Group of Men and Women; Carriage and Horses in Background. Verso: Three studies of cows
5 5/8 x 3 15/16 inches (143 x 102 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: black chalk.
1981.114
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Germain Seligman, Charlene Engelhard, and Mrs. Julius Fleischmann.
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Watermark: none.
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Numbered on verso in graphite at lower right corner, "100".
Associated names
Seligman, Germain, Mrs., donor.
Engelhard, Charlene, donor.
Fleischmann, Julius, Mrs., donor.
Engelhard, Charlene, donor.
Fleischmann, Julius, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 253.
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