Young Girl Reading "Héloise and Abélard"

1770

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in black, blue, and red

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.8 × 15.1 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet ((trimmed within plate mark)): 21.9 × 16.6 cm (8 5/8 × 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1998.63.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 218

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(André Candillier, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 22, as Young Girl Reading "Héloise and Abélard" by Gilles Demarteau the Elder after François Boucher.

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 218.

1978

  • Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'oeuvre grave de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 22.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 5, fig. 2.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: F. Boucher in del.; lower right in plate: Demarteau L.ne Scul.; across bottom in plate: Troisieme Estampes à plusieurs Crayons, à Paris chés Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelleterie à la Cloche . No. 218

Wikidata ID

Q75418384

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