The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Study for a Mantel and Overmantel

Study for a Mantel and Overmantel

Former Attribution:: Formerly attributed to Juste Aurèle Meissonnier (French, Turin 1695–1750 Paris)
Date:: n.d.
Medium:: Red and black chalk
Dimensions:: 14 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (35.9 x 20 cm.)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970
Accession Number:: 1970.736.65

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Private Collection, Switzerland ; Seiferheld and Co., New York ; Phillips, London [The Wrightsmans purchased this work in 1970.]; Donor: Charles and Jayne Wrightsman
References

Desmond Fitz-Gerald Juste Aurele Meissonnier and Others. Seiferheld Gallery, New York, 1963, cat. no. 1.

Mary L. Myers French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1991, cat. no. 47, pp. 75-76, ill.
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Who
Juste Aurèle Meissonnier (30)

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Chalk (5,217)
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A.D. 1600-1800 (66,179)
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