Jacques-Adrien Joly

ca. 1786

Dominique Vivant Denon French, 1747-1826

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About the Artwork

Title Jacques-Adrien Joly

Artwork Date ca. 1786

Artist Dominique Vivant Denon

Life Dates 1747-1826

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Black chalk and smudging or stumping on off-white laid paper

Dimensions Sheet (diameter): 5 7/8 inches (14.9 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 34.159.1

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Signed Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: Denon 1786

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: M- Joli [indecipherable] evaluer [?] | des [indecipherable] de la bibliothèque Inscribed, in pen and black ink, vertically along lower edge, verso: JW [or FW? in monogram] 6

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Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1934-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 204, no. 94.

McAllister-Johnson, William. "Figures et allégories du cabinet des estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, au XVIIIe siècle." Nouvelles de l'estampe, 78 (December 1984): pp. 22-27, p. 25 (fig. 4).

Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, pp. 15-55, no.41 (pl. 131).

Scheyer, Ernst. "French Drawings of the Great Revolution and the Napoleonic Era." The Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 187-204 (figs. 7 and 8).

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Dominique Vivant Denon, Jacques-Adrien Joly, ca. 1786, black chalk and smudging or stumping on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 34.159.1.

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