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A large round shield with a decorative pattern rests in the center, overlapped by a quiver of arrows and a decorative staff, all sketched in pencil on beige paper. A ribbon-like element loops around the objects, and the scene is enclosed within a double-lined border with faint red lines visible. The shield is at the lower center, the quiver to the right, and the staff partially visible at the top left.
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A large round shield with a decorative pattern rests in the center, overlapped by a quiver of arrows and a decorative staff, all sketched in pencil on beige paper. A ribbon-like element loops around the objects, and the scene is enclosed within a double-lined border with faint red lines visible. The shield is at the lower center, the quiver to the right, and the staff partially visible at the top left.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

An Ornamental Trophy

Hubert François Gravelot

Medium
graphite, incised for transfer on laid paper; laid down
Dimensions
sheet: 7.4 x 5.3 cm (2 15/16 x 2 1/16 in.) support: 27.9 x 20 cm (11 x 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1992.87.17
Credit line
Gift of Arthur L. Liebman
Time span
1651 to 1700
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • detail and ornament
  • architecture
  • Rococo
Provenance

Marquis de Fourquevaulx; Emmanuel Bocher (born 1835), Paris; Louis Olry-Roederer, Reims; by inheritance to Olry-Roederer Family, Paris, by 1912; Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York; Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992, to NGA

Inscription

the following are by later hand and are on the support: upper right in graphite: 27; upper left in graphite: 2E; upper left verso in graphite: 8II

NGA object ID 79121. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.