Title Page
1782
Artist, French, 1739 - 1821
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper (proof)
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter
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Dimensions
plate: 21.6 × 29 cm (8 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)
sheet: 22 × 29.8 cm (8 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2019.25.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Baudicour, no. 47
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
François Heugel [1922-2010], Paris (Lugt 3373); (Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1859
de Baudicour, Prosper. Le peintre-graveur français continué, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française nés dans le XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1861: no. 47
1930
IFF (1700): no. 49
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 169, fig. 11.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, in image, on monument: RECEUIL / DECOMPOSITIONS / PAR LAGRÉNÉE LEJEUNE; in plate, in image, at lower right: en 1782; verso: by later hand, lower right in graphite: 100957