Design for a Monumental Vase

Provenance

(P.?) Pradeau, Paris [invoice in curatorial file]; sold, Paris, January 23-24, 1882, lot 234 [invoice]. Hippolyte Destailleur (died 1893), Paris [Lugt 1300]. Germain Seligman, New York [stamp; not in Lugt]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

Design for a Monumental Vase

Augustin Pajou

1778

Accession Number

18658

Medium

Pen, brush and brown and black ink, brush and brown wash, with traces of black chalk, heightened with white gouache, over graphite, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

Dimensions

32.8 × 19.8 cm (12 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Worcester Sketch Fund