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Jacques Louis François Touzé
The Kiss Returned
dK457
2217
in or before 1795
pen and black ink, watercolor, and gouache
Drawing
19.7 x 14 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in)
Raphael Garreta, Rouen by 1929 [1] (sale, Hotel des Ventes, Rouen, 16-17 March 1931, no. 183, with pendant). Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1936 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art. [1] The drawing was displayed in the exhibition Exposition d’Art du XVIIIe siècle organized by Garreta at Musee de Peinture de Rouen, 25 March- 30 April 1929, listed in the exhibition catalogue under no. 216 as Le baise rendu.
1963.15.32
457
B-22398