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A Fashionable Couple

A Fashionable Couple

Artist/Maker (French, ca. 1740 – after 1799)
Date1779
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet: 9 9/16 × 6 15/16 in. (24.3 × 17.6 cm)
Credit LineCharles F. Olney Fund
Object number1980.84
Status
Not on view
More Information
This drawing is a preparatory study for a print published in the Galerie des Modes, which described the fashions worn by the personages in the images. The couple is either going to or coming from the court gaming tables, since the type of bag carried by the lady was used exclusively in that setting.
Provenance(Paul J. Weis, New York); purchased 1980 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
New Acquisitions 1981
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 19, 1981 - August 23, 1981 )
Eighteenth Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 29, 1989 - October 22, 1989 )
On Line: European Drawings, 16th-19th Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 18, 2007 - January 27, 2008 )
Collections
  • European
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