Seated Faun

Provenance

From an 18th century album of French drawings that was dismantled in the early 1950s; (P & D Colnaghi, London), 1953. Hardy Amis, London. (sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London, 8 December 1972, no. 7 as by Louis de Boullogne the Younger); Bailey. (Sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1987, no. 7, as by Boullogne). W.M. Brady & Co., New York. Lois and Georges de Ménil; gift 1989 to NGA.

Seated Faun

Boullogne the Younger, Louis de

1700/1705

Accession Number

1989.65.1

Medium

red and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 40.2 x 27.4 cm (15 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Lois and Georges de Ménil, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art