Hubert François Gravelot
1699-1773
Scene of Sacrifice
ca. 1770
5 1/16 x 4 inches (141 x 100 mm)
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper; verso rubbed with black chalk.
1963.13:20
Gift of John F. Fleming.
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.
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. 12, no. 37.
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