Art, literature & history
Confirmation
1786
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- brown wash and white gouache over black chalk on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet
- Dimensions
- sheet: 17.5 × 40.3 cm (6 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.) mount: 24.4 × 47.2 cm (9 5/8 × 18 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2018.100.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean Hippolyte Bardin. Confirmation. Jean Hippolyte Bardin; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in memory of Neil Phillips. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Confirmation — Jean Hippolyte Bardin. 1786.
Medium: brown wash and white gouache over black chalk on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 17.5 × 40.3 cm (6 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.) mount: 24.4 × 47.2 cm (9 5/8 × 18 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2018.100.1. Purchased as the Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in memory of Neil Phillips.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.