Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773
La Trémoille and Arondel Find their Mistresses at La Sainte-Beaume
ca. 1762
5 1/8 x 3 inches (130 x 75 mm)
Black chalk, with single rule of red chalk parallel to upper margin, on paper; incised with the stylus.
1968.15:28
Gift of John F. Fleming.
Notes
Gravelot's design is preparatory for an engraved frontispiece to Chant IX of Voltaire's “La Pucelle d'Orléans” (Genève : Cramer, 1762; facing p. 159). The scene depicts Arondel and La Tremoille and their mistresses sitting in a landscape; beyond, at left, are a group of praying monks while St Mary Magdalene appears on a cloud in the upper left corner. See also 1968.15:34-36 for further preparatory drawings by Gravelot for the same publication.
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.
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. 9, no. 13.
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