Allegory on the Death of the Dauphin, 1767

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Medium

chalk manner printed in red-brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 35.5 x 22.5 cm (14 x 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 46.3 x 32.3 cm (18 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 141

Accession Number

1988.33.1

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

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

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: C.N. Cochin filius inv.et delin.; lower right in plate: Demarteau l'Aine sculp.; across bottom in plate: Nempe quod injecit secreta modestia, velum / Scinditur, et vitae gloria morte patet ausen. / LA MORT A REVELE LE SECRET DE SA VIE.; lower left in plate: No. 141 de l'oeuvre; lower center in plate: A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de / la Pelterie a la Cloche.; lower center below plate mark in graphite: Allegorie sur les Vertus et Occupations du Dauphin.; lower center in graphite: rB

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no 141.