Landscape: Allegory of Hearing

Artist Isaac de Moucheron (French, 1667 - 1744)

Dateearly 18th century

MediumGray and sepia pen and wash

DimensionsUnframed: 12 5/16 x 10 1/2 inches (31.27 x 26.67 cm)
Framed: 21 x 17 x 1 inches (53.34 x 43.18 x 2.54 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Milton McGreevy through the Mission Fund

Object numberF63-51/1

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 68, as Hearing, From the Five Senses.

Eighteenth-Century European Drawings: From the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, October 17-November 18, 1979.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 29, 2009-November 8, 2009.

Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 15, 2017-July 16, 2017.

Provenance

With R. M. Light and Co. Inc., Santa Barbara, CA, by November 5, 1963;

Purchased from R.M. Light and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 38, as Hearing, From the Five Senses.

Richard G. Baumann and Patricia Crown, Eighteenth Century European Drawings, exh. cat. (Columbia: University of Missouri-Columbia, 1979).

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