Odysseus and Nausicaa

Odysseus and Nausicaa

c. 1791
Artist
Pierre Peyron, French, 1744-1814
Work Locations: France
Country
France
Object
drawing
Medium
Pen and black and iron-gall ink, brush and gray and brown wash, on ivory laid paper affixed to card stock
Accession Number
2019.577
Credit Line
The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
Pierre Peyron (French). Odysseus and Nausicaa. c. 1791. Pen and black and iron-gall ink, brush and gray and brown wash, on ivory laid paper affixed to card stock. The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection. 2019.577.
Dimensions
image height: 9 1/2 in, 24.1300 cm; image width: 14 1/4 in, 36.1950 cm; frame height: 15.5 in, 39.3700 cm; frame width: 20.375 in, 51.7525 cm; frame depth: 1.125 in, 2.8575 cm; height: 9.8125 in, 24.9238 cm; width: 14.5625 in, 36.9888 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
Private collection; with Wildenstein, New York; from which acquired by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], 2007; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.
Exhibition History
  • (?) Paris, Salon, 1791, no. 403 (see Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions, "Exposition de 1791," Paris, 1870, p. 32)
  • "Paintings and Drawings, 18th Century-French from the Wildenstein Gallery, New York City"—Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, 03/15-04/30/1966, no. 14 (as French School, 18th century)
  • "French Neoclassicism"—Wildenstein, New York, 04/16-05/15/1976, no. 28 (no catalogue)
  • "Maîtres du dessin français au 18ème siècle"—Wildenstein, Tokyo, 10/13-11/30/1977, no. 26. Illustrated
  • "Exposition Rococo: poésie et rêve de la peinture française au XVIIIe siècle"—Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, 01/14-02/12/1978, no. 32. Illustrated
  • "French Master Drawings from the 16th through the 18th Centuries"—Wildenstein, New York, 01/25-05/1/1999 (no catalogue)
  • "Passport to Paris"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013–02/09/2014