About the Artwork
Doubting Thomas
between late 18th and early 19th century
François-Xavier Fabre
1766-1837
French
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 8 5/8 inches (16.5 × 21.9 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR139
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Stamp, lower right, in purple ink: J. Peoli (Lugt 2020)
Provenance
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 39 (as by Guercino [q.v].)
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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French Drawings and Watercolors from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, Michigan, 1962, no. 22 (as by Callet).
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 206-207, no. 96 (as by Gamelin).
Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1964, no. 39 (ill.) (as by Callet).
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, pp. 15-55, no. 52 (pl. 124) (as by Gamelin).
Scheyer, Ernst. "French Drawings of the Great Revolution and the Napoleonic Era." The Art Quarterly 4 (1941): pp. 187-204, p. 197 (fig. 6) (as by Callet).
Swarzenski, Georg. Franzöische Meister des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Facsimilies nach Zeichnungen und Aquarellen. Munich, 1921 (as by Clodion).
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François-Xavier Fabre, Doubting Thomas, between late 18th and early 19th century, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR139.
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