Guillaume Guillon Lethière
1760-1832
Classical Subject, Possibly Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon
1796
18 5/16 x 23 1/2 inches (466 x 597 mm)
Point of brush and black and brown ink, brown and gray wash, some green chalk and white opaque watercolor, over black chalk and some graphite, on wove paper.
1994.7
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist in pen and brown ink on base of tomb at right, "G.. Le thiere a paris 1796".
Associated names
Royer, Elisabeth, former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 25, repr. in color.
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Century Drawings
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