Description:

about 1744-1747
black chalk with light heightening of white chalk on blue paper
257 x 207 mm

Provenance:

Collection of Jean-Denis Lempereur (1701-1779), his stamp lower right [L. 1740]
his sale, 24 May 1773, part of lots 670 to 672 or 675
Collection of Marquis de Chennevières (1820-1899),
His sale, 5 and 6 May 1898, lot 133 
Collection of Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), his stamp lower left [L. 1768a]
His third sale, 14-15 June 1937, lot 169
Sale of Maître Chapelle, Versailles, 24 November 1963, lot 10
Private Collection, France
 

Literature

Opperman, Hal, J.B.Oudry, 1977, New York, (revised and expanded edition of his 1972 thesis), no. D1096
Prat, L. A., Lhinares, L., "La collection Chennevières", 2007 (Paris : Musée du Louvre Editions), no. 833, p.433
 

Note:

This drawing was made by Oudry as a study for a larger drawing held in the Getty Museum, one of the finest in a series of drawings, numbering some fifty sheets, that he made between 1744 and 1747 in the abandoned gardens of the Prince de Guise’s château at Arcueil.