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Recto: Study of a dead boar
Verso: Anatomical studies and notations
Date:
ca. 1770–1780
Location:
Not on display
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Media:
Graphite Over Black Chalk With Stumping, Heightened With White Chalk, On Cream Laid Paper Prepared With Gray Gouache Ground
Dimensions:
Image: 200 x 263 mm (7 7/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
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Continent:
Europe
Provenance:
Artist's widow (according to Hellman), Joseph Green Cogswell; Mortimer Leo Schiff; Moore S. Achenbach (1939); gift to AFGA.
Accession Number:
1963.24.239r-v
Acquisition Date:
1963-04-09
Credit Line:
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Lifeless boar stretched out on its left side; drawn from above and 3-4 feet in front of its head.
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
Napoleonic War Series I: Statue de Louis XIV Abatue, Place des Victorie (18th–19th century)
