Putti Preparing the Interior Decoration of a Mansion, 1737/1738

Not on View

series Title

De la Décoration des Edifices (Paris, 1738)

Medium

etching [proof] on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Jan Paul Richter Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 142?

Accession Number

2010.75.5

Artists / Makers

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II (artist) French, 1715 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bonafous-Murat, Arsene, Monsieur

Bibliography

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