Gilles Paul Cauvet

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Gilles Paul Cauvet
1731-1788
Album of Drawings and Prints
1787
Various media, including pen and black and brown ink, gray and brown wash, red chalk, watercolor, hand-colored etching, and graphite on paper.
various dimensions; smallest, 2 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (64 x 143 mm); largest, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (248 x 184 mm)
Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide.
1997.20
Notes: 

This album contains thirteen drawings and five prints by Cauvet, as well as an anonymous portrait drawing of the artist.

Inscription: 

Inscribed in graphite at bottom of leaf 1, "G...P...Cauvet / d'aix en provence / sculpteur de Monsieur frere du / Roy"; inscribed in red ink on piece of paper pasted on to the bottom half of leaf 2, "Les Dessins et Croquis originaux de G. P. Cauvet, d'Aix en Provence, / contenus dans ce recueil, ont été encadrés et rassemblés ici (1864-1865) par / Ernest Lefevre et Henriette Zélia Cauvet, sa femme, petite-fille de G. P. Cauvet"; signed in black ink at lower left of leaf 3, "G. P. Cauvet Del."; signed in black ink at lower right of leaf 6, in reverse, "Cauvet del."; inscribed, signed and dated in black ink on leaf 16, at bottom right, "suite de vases / par Cauvet / 1787".

Provenance: 
Mrs. John Jay Ide.
Associated names: 

Ide, John Jay, Mrs., former owner.

Catalog link: 
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Artist page: 
Cauvet, G. P.
School: 
French
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Album
Department: 
Drawings and Prints