About the Artwork
La Mélancolie
between 1789 and 1810
Jean Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810
French
Unknown
Graphite pencil on dark cream laid paper
Sheet: 7 × 6 5/16 inches (17.8 × 16 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR24
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, top center: La Melancolie Inscribed, lower center, verso: Jean Jacques de Boissieu fecit. | Col. Desperet-- Inscribed, upper left, verso: Sc.24
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)
Provenance
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)
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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.
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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.
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