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Amour dancing among the Nymphs, from The Games of Nymphs and Lovers

Maker

(artist)
1716-1809

Title

Amour dancing among the Nymphs, from The Games of Nymphs and Lovers

Date of Production

1796

Medium

pen and grey ink, brown wash on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount (same as D.1932.XX.3-5 and D.1952.RW.3717)

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 28.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1932.XX.6

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

Literature

Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand, Joseph-Marie Vien. Peintre du Roi (1716-1809), Paris 1988
no. 171
illus. p.171

Inscriptions

Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, upper right on the building, grey ink, signed and dated by the artist: “j.m. vien / 1796”. Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: “L’amour fait danser les nymphes.”; lower left corner, brown ink: “19.”; lower left corner, graphite, accession number: “6.32”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper left edge, graphite: “5. Presented Tomas Harris, May 27. 1932”; lower right corner, grey ink, circled: “562.”.

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