Gabriel Alexandre Decamps
French, 1803–1860
A Boy Leading His Animal Troupe
probably c. 1855
| Medium | watercolor over pencil on paper |
| Dimensions | Overall: 6 7/16 x 9 15/16 in. (16.4 x 25.3 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1641 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Gabriel Alexandre Decamps, A Boy Leading His Animal Troupe, probably c. 1855, watercolor over pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1641
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966.
Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Dewey F. Mosby et al.. Henry Ossawa Tanner (exh.cat.).. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art.. 1980..
Provenance
Neuville & Vivien, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1935).
