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Design for a Parade Carriage

Artist Charles Percier (French, 1764 - 1838)
Artist Pierre-Francois-Leonard Fontaine (French, 1762 - 1853)
Formerly attributed to Auguste Baron de Jassaud
Date1804-1814
MediumBlack ink with gray wash, watercolor, gouache, and shell gold on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 14 7/16 x 28 7/16 inches (36.63 x 72.19 cm)
Framed: 23 x 37 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches (58.42 x 95.25 x 3.18 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Westport Fund
Object numberF68-13
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Master Drawings, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 1967, unnumbered, erroneously attributed to Auguste, the comte de Jasseau, as A Gala Coach.

The Taste of Napoleon, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 2, November 16, 1969, no. 79, as by an unknown artist, as A Gala Coach.

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as by an anonymous artist, as Design for a Parade Carriage.

Master Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 58, as Design for a Parade Carriage.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Design for a Parade Carriage.

Provenance

With Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1967-1968;

Purchased from Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Inc., through the generosity of Milton and Barbara McGreevy, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1968.

Published References

Master Drawings, exh. cat. (New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1967), unpaginated, (repro.), erroneously attributed to Auguste, the comte de Jasseau, as A Gala Coach.

Lincoln Kirstein, “The Taste of Napoleon,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 10 (October 2-November 16, 1969): 72, 74, (repro.), as by an unknown artist, as A Gala Coach.

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 6, 51, (repro.), as by an anonymous artist, as Design for a Parade Carriage.

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 198, (repro.), attributed to Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, as Design for a Parade Carriage.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 183-85, (repro.), as Design for a Parade Carriage.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 109, (repro.), as Design for a Parade Carriage.

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