The Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts

Original Language TitleL'Academie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts

Artist Sebastian Leclerc (French, 1637 - 1714)

Date18th century

MediumBlack ink on vellum

DimensionsUnframed: 6 7/8 × 20 1/2 inches (17.45 × 52.07 cm)
Framed: 16 3/4 × 28 1/2 inches (42.55 × 72.39 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jean McGreevy Green, Gail McGreevy Harmon, Annie McGreevy, Pamela McGreevy, Jessica McGreevy and Barbara Helen McGreevy

Object numberF96-43/1

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DescriptionThe fan-shaped drawing illustrates the Academy of Louis XIV, in which various subjects were taught, including architecture, mathematics, geography, medicine and painting, among others. Multiple figures dressed in loosely draped clothing are clustered around numerous scientific instruments. The figures and equipment are scattered on varying levels in an open courtyard area surrounded by classical architecture characterized by arched entrances and Corinthian columns. In the center of the composition, a globe appears surrounded by figures. In the left foreground, figures are gathered around a large illustration containing various coats-of-arms and mathematical configurations. On the left is an arched entrance to a library; in the right foreground appears a large urn containing flowers which is placed on the top of a half-column.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Kansas City Collects, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 1965, no. 68.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 29, as L’Academie [sic] des Sciences et des Beaux Arts [sic].

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, hors cat.

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.

Provenance

Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, 1953-1980;

To his wife, Barbara (née James, 1905-1996) McGreevy, Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1980-1996;

To her daughters, Jean McGreevy Green (b. 1930), Kansas City, MO; Gail McGreevy Harmon (b. 1941), Washington, D.C.; Annie McGreevy (b. 1938), Sonoita, AZ; and granddaughters, Pamela McGreevy (b. ca. 1953), Rochester, NY; Jessica McGreevy (b. c. 1957), Sonoita, AZ, and Barbara Helen McGreevy (b. c. 1954), New York, 1996;

Given by Jean McGreevy Green, Gail McGreevy Harmon, Annie McGreevy, Pamela McGreevy, Jessica McGreevy and Barbara Helen McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1996.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 20, (repro.), as L’Academie [sic] des Sciences et des Beaux Arts [sic].

Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes, ed., Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015), (repro.).

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