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Drawing, Project for the Painted Decoration of the Ceiling of a Hall (Painted Oval Ceiling)
This is a Drawing. It was created by Jean Baptiste-Marie Pierre. It is dated 1761 and we acquired it in 1931. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray and black wash on two sheets of off-white heavy laid paper joined together horizonatally, lined. 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 from the collection of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt.
- Drawing, Study for "The Triumph of Apollo" for the Ceiling of the Sala delle...
- pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, black chalk, graphite on....
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- 1938-88-3578
Its dimensions are
41.3 x 61.6 cm (16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.)
It has the following markings
watermark: visible is one similar to Churchill 433 left.
It is inscribed
Verso: in pen and brown ink, several lines of handwritten text in an 18th century hand: Vue...&... / pour le developpement / du plafond du / projet de M. Pierre / le 7 Aout [?] 1761 / Canu [?]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Project for the Painted Decoration of the Ceiling of a Hall (Painted Oval Ceiling); Jean Baptiste-Marie Pierre (French, 1714 – 1789); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray and black wash on two sheets of off-white heavy laid paper joined together horizonatally, lined; 41.3 x 61.6 cm (16 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.); Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt from the collection of Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt; 1931-70-37
