Landscape with River, between 1736 and 1810

  • Jean Jacques de Boissieu, French, 1736-1810

Pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite pencil on cream laid paper

  • Sheet: 5 × 8 13/16 inches (12.7 × 22.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR22

Signed, lower left, in pencil: B

Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right, verso: J. F. R. Inscribed, in graphite, lower right, verso: L. gn (--)

J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 63

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 194-195, no. 89. 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. 134.

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, Landscape with River, between 1736 and 1810, pen and brown ink and gray wash over graphite pencil on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR22.