Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards

Johann Esaias Nilson1756

Details

Title: Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards
Creator: Johann Esaias Nilson
Date Created: 1756
Physical Dimensions: sheet: 17.6 x 25.1 cm (6 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Provenance: (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1974, no. 5). (Paul Prouté, Paris, 1976). (Galerie Gunzenhauser, Munich) in 1976. Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Medium: pen and black ink with gray and black wash over traces of graphite, heightened with white gouache on laid paper, incised throughout and laid down, with the verso reddened for transfer

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