The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 5, 2023

Lot and His Daughters

1756

Antoine Pesne

(French, 1683–1757)

France, 18th century

Black and red chalk wash, gray wash, heightened with white gouache; framing lines in black ink

Support: Brown-beige laid paper

Sheet: 33.4 x 45.1 cm (13 1/8 x 17 3/4 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1975.15

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in brown ink: Ant Pesne fecit 1756

Provenance
[Paul Drey Gallery]
Exhibition history

CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).

CMA, Treasures on Paper (May 10-July 24, 1988).

CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979).

CMA, Year in Review for 1975 (Feb. 3-Mar. 7, 1976), cma Bulletin 63 (1976), p. 69 no. 104, illus. p. 43.

German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.15