Jean-Baptiste Lallemand
1716-1803?
View of a Mill on the River Cousin, Avalon
sheet: 9 1/8 x 15 7/17 inches (230 x 392 mm); design area: 8 1/4 x 14 13/16 inches (209 x 376 mm)
Black chalk with touches of brown ink, on paper; ruled border.
1986.52
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist in ink, at lower margin, "moulin du cousin de front a avalon".
Watermark: Hunting horn within a shield surmounted by a crown, VANDERLEY below (close to Heawood 2749).
Watermark: Hunting horn within a shield surmounted by a crown, VANDERLEY below (close to Heawood 2749).
Associated names
Elgin, Earl of former owner.
De Rothschild, Kate, former owner.
Wrightsman, Jayne, donor.
De Rothschild, Kate, former owner.
Wrightsman, Jayne, donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 355.
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Century Drawings
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