About the Artwork
The Young Farmer
ca. between 1752 and 1756
Augustin Pajou
1730-1809
French
Unknown
Black chalk on antique laid paper
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 13/16 inches (18.2 × 12.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund
54.455.A
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: d'après Nature
Watermark: [fragment of anchor in circle above the letter F]
Provenance
Michel Benisovich (New York, New York, USA)
1954-present, purchase by 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. 221, no. 105.
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. 191.
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Augustin Pajou, The Young Farmer, ca. between 1752 and 1756, black chalk on antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 54.455.A.
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