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Gilles Paul Cauvet
1731-1788
Album of Drawings and Prints
1787
various dimensions; smallest, 2 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (64 x 143 mm); largest, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (248 x 184 mm)
Various media, including pen and black and brown ink, gray and brown wash, red chalk, watercolor, hand-colored etching, and graphite on paper.
1997.20
Gift of Mrs. John Jay Ide.
Notes
This album contains thirteen drawings and five prints by Cauvet, as well as an anonymous portrait drawing of the artist.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in graphite at bottom of leaf 1, "G...P...Cauvet / d'aix en provence / sculpteur de Monsieur frere du / Roy"; inscribed in red ink on piece of paper pasted on to the bottom half of leaf 2, "Les Dessins et Croquis originaux de G. P. Cauvet, d'Aix en Provence, / contenus dans ce recueil, ont été encadrés et rassemblés ici (1864-1865) par / Ernest Lefevre et Henriette Zélia Cauvet, sa femme, petite-fille de G. P. Cauvet"; signed in black ink at lower left of leaf 3, "G. P. Cauvet Del."; signed in black ink at lower right of leaf 6, in reverse, "Cauvet del."; inscribed, signed and dated in black ink on leaf 16, at bottom right, "suite de vases / par Cauvet / 1787".
Associated names
Ide, John Jay, Mrs., former owner.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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