Park View

Louis-Gabriel Moreau1740/1806

Details

Title: Park View
Creator: Louis Gabriel Moreau the Elder
Date Created: 1740/1806
Physical Dimensions: sight size: 28 x 22.5 cm (11 x 8 7/8 in.)
Provenance: (Sale Paris, Hotel Drouot, May 1907, no. 42, as _Interieur de Parc_, no owner given). (Sale Paris, Hotel Drouot, 18 December 1908, no. 21, as _Vue dans un Parc_, no owner given). Richard Owen, Paris; [1] Samuel H. Kress 1937 New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art. [1] Under the entry for this work in _Kress Collection Catalogue European Paintings Excluding Italian_, footnote 4 suggests that the work was possibly in an exhibition in Paris: Petit Palais, _Le Paysage français de Poussin à Corot_, 1926; which included works lent by Mme Veuve A. Doucet and M. Doucet. However, due to the ambiguity of arbitrary titles given to works, it is uncertain which of the drawings listed in that exhibit could be this specific work. Moreover, the only work by Moreau listed as owned by Doucet is a river landscape: _Paysage, Une rivière avec de petits personnages_.
Medium: gouache over graphite on vellum

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