La Mélancolie, between 1789 and 1810

  • Jean Jacques de Boissieu, French, 1736-1810

Graphite pencil on dark cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 7 × 6 5/16 inches (17.8 × 16 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR24

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Stamp, in black ink, lower right: D [in lobed circle] (Lugt 721, E. Desperet) Stamp, in purple ink, lower right verso: J. Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Inscribed, in pencil, top center: La Melancolie Inscribed, lower center, verso: Jean Jacques de Boissieu fecit. | Col. Desperet-- Inscribed, upper left, verso: Sc.24

E. Desperet

E. Argo. J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 65

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 193, no. 88. 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, p. 134.

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, La Mélancolie, between 1789 and 1810, graphite pencil on dark cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR24.