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Drawing, Memorial Panel Depicting Painting and Music

This is a Drawing. It was made by Bernard Picart. It is dated 1732 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and white gouache, black chalk. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Eleanor Garnier Hewitt and Sarah Cooper Hewitt. It is credited Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.

Its dimensions are

37.9 × 29.5 cm (14 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Verso: the Leipzig sale stamp and the mark of the j.W. Nahl collection (Lugt 2731. 1954). Nahl wrote on the mounting paper, in pencil: "20 Avril 49 vente v. H."

It is signed

Signature is in the lower left corner: "B. Picart fecit 1732."

Cite this object as

Drawing, Memorial Panel Depicting Painting and Music; Made by Bernard Picart (1673–1733); France; pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and white gouache, black chalk; 37.9 × 29.5 cm (14 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt; 1931-64-170

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