About the Artwork
Aeolus Obeying Juno's Command to Create a Storm
ca. between 1683 and 1684
Raymond La Fage
1656-1690
French
Unknown
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray ink and gray wash over graphite on cream laid paper
Sheet: 16 13/16 × 23 1/4 inches (42.7 × 59.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR111
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower left in dark brown ink: R. Lafage
Pencil, upper left edge, on mount, verso: 40015 [upside down]
Stamp, in purple ink, lower right: J. Peoli (Lugt 2020)
Provenance
1735, Antoine Rivalz (Toulouse, France). Marquis de F. J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 362
1894-1906, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1906-1909, Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 172-173, no. 77.
Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, p. 168.
Perlove, Shelley and George S. Keyes, ed. Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Notre Dame, 2015, pp. 252-253, cat. 98 (ill.).
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Raymond La Fage, Aeolus Obeying Juno's Command to Create a Storm, ca. between 1683 and 1684, pen and brown ink with brush and gray ink and gray wash over graphite on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR111.
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