Design for a Decorative Panel with Two Sirens Holding a Vase Embellished with Dolphins and other Decorative Motifs

Provenance

Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn, Paris [1870 – 1939]; by descent until 1995; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29 November 1995, no. 105). Kate de Rothschild (born 1949), London, in 1996. Horace Wood Brock; (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, 2018); David McDonnell, Arlington, VA; gift to NGA, 2021.

Design for a Decorative Panel with Two Sirens Holding a Vase Embellished with Dolphins and other Decorative Motifs

Cauvet, Gilles Paul

1777

Accession Number

2022.14.3

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.31 × 18.73 cm (18 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of David H. McDonnell