Fête Champêtre, between 1709 and 1710

  • French
  • Bernard Picart, French, 1673-1733

Pen and black ink and gray wash, with white, on blue laid paper

  • Sheet: 18 1/8 × 26 3/8 inches (46 × 67 cm)

Gift of James E. Scripps

94.3SDR190

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Stamp, in purple ink, lower right, verso: J. Peoli (Lugt 2020)

Inscribed, in pencil, vertically, on mount, verso, upper right: [illegible] Inscribed, on mount, verso, upside down, center right: vente de le Marquis de F[?]

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. 474 (as by Picart). 1894, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1894-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 328-329, no. A80.

French; after Bernard Picart, Fête Champêtre, between 1709 and 1710, pen and black ink and gray wash, with white, on blue laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 94.3SDR190.