Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, blue, red and pale yellow wash heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on brown-washed paper. The sheet consists of fourteen pieces of cream-colored paper mounted on a paper support.
Dimensions:28 1/8 x 35 3/8 in. (71.4 x 89.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1953
Accession Number:53.121
Signature: In pen and brown ink at lower left: "Carle Vanloo"
Lorenzo Somis (Italian), brother-in-law of Carle Vanloo. (per Sahut and Rosenberg); Christine Vanloo (Italian), her sale, Paris, April 21, 1775, lot f 3 r: "un dessin fait au bistre par le même représentant le Sacrifice d'Iphigenie monté sous verre dans une bordure de bois noirci avec filet d'or"; Chariot , sale, Paris, Jan. 28, 1788, lot 121. According to Sahut and Rosenberg, the drawing sold for 1,271 livres to either Basan or Prieur.; William Barber Buddicom (British)exhibited at Wrexham in 1876.; Miss Venetia Buddicom (British); Christie's, LondonMay 22, 1953, lot 10, bought by Wheeler; Vendor: Clifford Duits
Athens. National Pinakothiki, Alexander Soutzos Museum. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," 1979.
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Bean and Turcic 1986.295; Sahut and Rosenberg 1977.363
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Francis H. Dowley "Carle Van Loo's 'Sacrifice of Iphigenia'." in Master Drawings. vol 5, no. 1, 1967, fig. no. pl. 32, pp. 42-47, ill.
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Marie-Catherine Sahut, Pierre Rosenberg Carle Vanloo. Premier peintre du roi. Exh. cat., Nice, Musée Chéret; Clermont-Ferrand, Musée Bargoin; Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Nice, 1977, cat. no. 363, p. 123, ill.
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Perrin Stein, Daniella Berman, Philippe Bordes, Mehdi Korchane, Benjamin Peronnet, Louis-Antoine Prat, Juliette Trey Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman. New York, 2022, fig. no. 65, 100, ill.
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