Trompe l'Oeil: A Curlew Hanging from a Nail

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's New York, 27 January 2010); (via Martin Moeller, Hamburg); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Trompe l'Oeil: A Curlew Hanging from a Nail

Traviès, Édouard

1850s(?)

Accession Number

2010.38.2

Medium

watercolor and gouache over black chalk

Dimensions

sheet: 63.5 x 47.5 cm (25 x 18 11/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund