Putti Preparing the Interior Decoration of a Mansion

1737/1738

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Artist, French, 1715 - 1790

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching [proof] on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Jan Paul Richter Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.7 x 12.5 cm (7 3/4 x 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 22.2 x 16.4 cm (8 3/4 x 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.75.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 142?

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Arsène Bonafous-Murat, Paris); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1880

  • Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880: no. 142?

Inscriptions

lower left in image: Cochin Filius inv. et Sculp.; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 53 vignette - T II p. 65; by later hand, lower right in graphite: J. no. 43 Blondel Decoratio; by later hand, verso in graphite: [not deciphered] de cuivre; A 80357

Wikidata ID

Q76552834

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