Three Studies of a Woman in Classical Roman Costume with Children, between 1792 and 1805

  • French

Graphite pencil on off-white laid paper

  • Sheet: 6 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (15.6 × 21.6 cm)

Gift of James E. Scripps

94.3SDR86

Stamp, in purple ink, lower center, verso: J. Peoli (Lugt 2020) Watermark: Fragment of FABIANO (Heawood 1596, pl. 218)

Inscribed, in pencil, upper left center, verso: Dessin [P?]récoe[indecipherable] Inscribed, lower center, verso: L. David Inscribed, lower left, verso: a

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

May 8, 1894, Peoli sale no. 168, American Art Association (New York, New York, USA)

James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Heil, Walter. "Some French Drawings of the Nineteenth Century." Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (January 1931): p. 38 (ill.), p. 37. Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 336-337, no. A90.

French, Three Studies of a Woman in Classical Roman Costume with Children, between 1792 and 1805, graphite pencil on off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 94.3SDR86.