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The race: Love's Game from The Games of Nymphs and Lovers

Maker

(artist)
1716-1809

Title

The race: Love's Game from The Games of Nymphs and Lovers

Date of Production

1794 - 1796

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey-brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, on a historic mount (same as D.1932.XX.4-6 and 3717)

Dimensions

Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 28.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.XX.3

Mode of Acquisition

Tomás Harris, gift, 1932 (May)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

purchased from the artist, probably by William Beckford (1760-1844); Tomás Harris, London (1908-1964); Harris Gift 1932

Exhibition History

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968

Literature

Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand, Joseph-Marie Vien. Peintre du Roi (1716-1809), Paris 1988
no. 167
illus. p.167

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 706

Inscriptions

Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, upper right on arch, grey ink, signed by the artist: “jo.m. vien”; lower left on plinth, grey ink: “LAN / ILL / REP / FRM”. Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: “Jeux institués par l’Amour. La Course.”; lower left corner, brown ink: “14.”; lower left corner, graphite, accession number: “3.32”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: “6. Presented Tomas Harris May 27 1932”; lower right corner, grey ink, circled: “559”.

Collector's mark: none.

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