Hubert François Gravelot

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Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773
Scene of Sacrifice
ca. 1770
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper; verso rubbed with black chalk.
5 1/16 x 4 inches (141 x 100 mm)
Gift of John F. Fleming.
1963.13:20
Notes: 

Gravelot's sketch was probably intended for an engraved illustration to Abbé Jean Raymond de Petity's "Les Voeux de la France et de l'Empire...." (Paris : 1770). The sheet contains a medallion design with a priest preparing to sacrifice a bull as a figure is tortured on a pyre in the background and a group of figures celebrate around an altar on a mountaintop. The Morgan preserves two further designs for Petity's publication: see 1963.13:19 and 1968.15:39.

Provenance: 
Marie-Joseph-Colombe-Henri-Denis Beccaria de Pavie, Marquis de Fourquevaux (1762-1841), Fourquevaux, France; Emmanuel Bocher (1835-1919), Paris; Léon Olry-Roederer (1869-1932), Paris; A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia; John Fleming (1910-1987), New York.
Associated names: 

Fourquevaux, Joseph de Beccarie de Pavie, marquis de, 1762-1841, former owner.
Bocher, Emmanuel, 1835-1919, former owner.
Olry-Roederer, Léon, 1869-1932, former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Fleming, John F. (John Francis), 1910-1987, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Kraemer, Ruth S. "Drawings by Gravelot in the Morgan Library." Master drawings, XX (Spring 1982), p. 12, no. 37.

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Gravelot, Hubert François
School: 
French
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints