Harvard Art Museums > 2002.20: Sheet of Caricatures Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sheet of Caricatures (Jean-Laurent Legeay) , 2002.20,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/146767. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2002.20 People Jean-Laurent Legeay, French (Paris c. 1710 - 1790 Rome, Italy?) Title Sheet of Caricatures Other Titles Alternate Title: Roundel of Caricatures Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1757 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/146767 Physical Descriptions Medium Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on cream antique laid paper Dimensions diameter: 30.7 cm (12 1/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in drawing, lower left, red chalk: J. LE GEAY. INVENT / et fecit 1757 inscription: verso, center, graphite: 609 [last two numbers underlined] inscription: verso, upper left, green ink: 136 B / no inscription: verso, upper center, black ink: J. Le Geay invenit / Anno 1757 watermark: laid down--none visible Provenance Recorded Ownership History Richard Wunder, San Diego, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan, 2002.20 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan Accession Year 2002 Object Number 2002.20 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Richard P. Wunder, Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, exh. cat., Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT, 1975), cat. no. 115, pp. 69-70, 190 Richard P. Wunder, "The Spread of 'Piranesism' to France Through Legeay and Challe", Piranèse et les français, colloque, Villa Medici, Académie de France à Rome, ed. Georges Brunel, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1978), pp. 553-566, pp. 553-66 Sonia Couturier, ed., Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2011), cat. no. 82b, pp. 208-209, 236 Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 506-n.11 Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 71, repr. Exhibition History Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury, 01/05/1975 - 02/26/1975 Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 10/21/2011 - 01/02/2012 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
