The Young Farmer

Augustin Pajou French, 1730-1809
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About the Artwork

The Young Farmer

ca. between 1752 and 1756

Augustin Pajou

1730-1809

French

Unknown

Black chalk on antique laid paper

Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 13/16 inches (18.2 × 12.2 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund

54.455.A

This work is in the public domain.

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Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: d'après Nature

Watermark: [fragment of anchor in circle above the letter F]

Provenance

Michel Benisovich (New York, New York, USA)

1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 221, no. 105.

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. 191.

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Augustin Pajou, The Young Farmer, ca. between 1752 and 1756, black chalk on antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 54.455.A.

The Young Farmer
The Young Farmer