Nymphs and Satyrs (a); figure sketches (b)
Artist: Unknown Artist (French, -)
Medium: pen and brown ink, grey wash on paper
Dimensions: 3 1/4 in. x 9 5/8 in. (8.3 cm. x 24.4 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.117.a.&.b
No marks or inscriptions identified for this object
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
- The Pervasive Yet Elusive Dionysos
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 4/12/2001 - 6/17/2001)
Pierre Rosenberg tentatively suggested a member of the Parrocel family as the artist, while Oberhuber felt the sheet could be earlier, within the influence of Poussin.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).