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Gardens at Arcueil

Maker

(artist)
1686-1755

Title

Gardens at Arcueil

Date of Production

1745

Medium

black chalk with stumping, white chalk partially applied as bodycolour, graphite on blue (now brown) laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 30.6 cm
Width: 52.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1957.WF.4656

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1957

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Jean Masson, Amiens and Paris (1856-1933), L.1494a; his sale, G. Petit (Paris), 7 - 8 May 1923, lot 174; purchased there by A. Morhange (2600 francs); his sale, Christie's (London), 23 November 1956, lot 7; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, 17 May 1957 (£320)

Exhibition History

A l'ombre des frondaisons d'Arcueil, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 24/05/2016-20/06/2016

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985 ...More

Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983

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

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

A selection of drawings from the Witt collection: French drawings c. 1600-c. 1800, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1962

French Master Drawings, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1962

French Masters - Rococo to Romanticism, UCLA, Los Angeles, 1961

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 30/05/1957-29/06/1957

Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950 ...Less

Literature

Desguine, André, L'oeuvre de de J.B. Oudry sur le parc et les jardin d'Arcueil, Paris 1950

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 49

Baer, Curtis O., Landscape drawings, New York 1973
no. 242 on pp. 242-43
ill. on p. 243 ...More

Opperman, Hal N., Jean-Baptiste Oudry, New York and London 1977
no. D1061
fig. 319

J.-B. Oudry, 1686-1755, Grand Palais, Paris; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1982-1983
pp. 232-35
fig. 129/138d

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 69
ill. on p. 82

Borne, François, 'Excellence in obscurity: French drawings at the Courtauld Institute of Art' in 'Apollo', September 1991 - pp. 192-94; CXXXIV, 355
p. 194

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 40, p. 90
ill. on p. 91 (b&w) and np (colour)

A l'ombre des frondaisons d'Arcueil, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2016
cat. no. 45
ill. on p. 117

Adam, Edina and Michelle Sullivan, Drawing on Blue: European Drawings on Blue Paper 1400-1700s, exh. cat., The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2024
p. 55
fig. 4.7 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: unable to check the drawing due to the thick backing sheet. Backing sheet (visible only in raking light): left centre: “HONIG”; Countermark: right centre edge: Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist, first two letters monogram: “JB Oudry 1745”. Verso (backing sheet): upper left, graphite: “400Z”; lower right, graphite: “Promenade dans un Parc par JB: Oudry Peintre du Roy Louis XV / Ecole Francaise //”; lower right edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A. 21870”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Jean Masson (L.1494a).

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