About the Artwork
Boy with Bagpipe
early 18th century
Jean Raoux
1677-1734
French
Unknown
Black chalk with touches of white and red chalk, on tan antique laid paper
Sheet: 17 5/8 × 11 5/16 inches (44.8 × 28.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund
34.134
This work is in the public domain.
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Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner, verso: D.1610 (in circle)
Provenance
(E. Parsons and Sons, London, England)
[as by D. Maas] 1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 329-330, no. A81.
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circle of Jean Raoux, Boy with Bagpipe, early 18th century, black chalk with touches of white and red chalk, on tan antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.134.
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