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Loving couples in a Park
Loving couples in a Park

Loving couples in a Park

Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (French, 1745–1830)
Medium/TechniqueOpaque watercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 23.5 × 18.9 cm (9 1/4 × 7 7/16 in.)
Framed: 33.3 × 29.2 cm (13 1/8 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2596
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
ProvenancePrivate collection, Warsaw. By 1920, David David-Weill (b. 1871 - d. 1952), Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine, France [see note 1]; 1937, sold by David-Weill to Wildenstein and Co., New York [see note 2]; October 28, 1943, sold by Wildenstein to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] He lent MFA accession nos. 65.2595 and 65.2596 to the "Exposition de Petits Maitres et Maitres peu connus du XVIII siècle" (Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Paris, June 1-27, 1920), cat. no. 412. See Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, vol. 2, Pastels, Aquarelles, Gouaches, Tableaux Modernes (Paris, 1927), pp. 163-167.

[2] "Sale of the David-Weill Collection," Art News February 27, 1937, pp. 12, 20. The watercolors were included in the exhibition "French XVIII Century Pastels, Water Colors, and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection" (Wildenstein and Co., New York, November-December, 1938), nos. 39-40.