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Tempête (Tempest) Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123

Tempête (Tempest)
Illustration for Virgil's Aeneid, I. 81-123

(French, 1767–1824)
about 1820–24
Medium/TechniqueBlack chalk
DimensionsSheet: 27 x 41.9 cm (10 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.)
Framed: 54.9 x 66 cm (21 5/8 x 26 in.)
Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession number1999.7
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceFrom the artist to his pupil, Antoine-Claude Pannetier (b. 1772 - d. 1859), Paris; 1859, M. de la Bordes. Ambroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790 - d. 1860), Paris; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 15, 1867, lot 3. November 7, 1971, anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, lot 1. June 17, 1987, anonymous (private collection) sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 37. February 12, 1997, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 165. 1999, sold by Mark Brady, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 24, 1999)
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Image Not Available for Les Amours des Dieux
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