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Several Figures in a Church(?) Interior

Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773

Several Figures in a Church(?) Interior

6 3/8 x 4 inches (162 x 102 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, with red chalk, on paper; incised with the stylus.
1968.15:32

Gift of John F. Fleming.

Notes
Gravelot's design probably was intended to serve as an illustration for an unidentified publication. Three men and a woman are shown standing in an aisle, with a fifth figure of a woman occupying one of the benches or pews at right.
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. 14, no. 55, reproduced plate 19.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department