La malheureuse famille Calas (The Unfortunate Calas Family), c. 1765

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 36 x 45.8 cm (14 3/16 x 18 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.23.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Delafosse (artist) French, 1721 - 1775

Louis de Carrogis, called Carmontelle (artist after) French, 1717 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

below image, lower left in plate: L.C. DeCarmontelle delineavit 1765.; lower right in plate: DelafoBe Sculpsit.; lower center in plate: LA MALHEUREUSE FAMILLE CALAS. / La Mere, les deux Filles, avec Jeanne Viguiere, leur bonne Servante, le Fils et son ami, le jeune Lavayfse. / Qualibus in teneb ris vitae quantifque periclis / Degitur hoc aevi quodcumque eft. Lucret . / Avec Privilege du Roi; uL //in graphite: 1762; lLv//in graphite: 614212

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 36.