About the Artwork
Villagers Dancing
ca. 1651
Claude Gellée
1600-1682
French
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Image: 5 1/4 × 7 5/8 inches (13.3 × 19.4 cm) Sheet (no visible plate mark): 5 3/8 × 7 3/4 inches (13.7 × 19.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S292
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: original Etching | Robert Dumesnil No 10
Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) 1886 [date added in ink]
Provenance
April 1886, Dorman sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Claude Gellée, Villagers Dancing, ca. 1651, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S292.
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