Guardhouse
1758
Artist, French, 1717 - 1769
Artwork overview
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Medium
chalk manner and softground etching printed in brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in memory of Neil Phillips
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Dimensions
plate: 45.9 x 67.8 cm (18 1/16 x 26 11/16 in.)
sheet: 47.4 x 68 cm (18 11/16 x 26 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1999.135.5
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hérold 1931, no. 67, State undescribed, between ii and iii/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(James A. Bergquist, Boston); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2003
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 4.
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1931
Hérold, Jacques. Gravure en manière de crayon, Jean-Charles François. Paris, 1931.
2003
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 4.
Inscriptions
lower center in image: Carle Vanloo del 1757; lower right in image: A Paris chez françois / au triangle dor hotel des Ursins derrier St Denis de la Chartre / lower right in plate below image: au triangle dOr hotel des Ursins derrier St. Denis de la Chartre; across bottom of plate, Dédié / A Monsieur Le Marquis de Marigny Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils, Comandeur des Ordres de Sa Majesté, Directeur et / Ordonnateur Général de Ses Batiments, jardins, Arts, Academies et Manufactures Royales; lower right in plate: par Son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur J.C. françois / auteur de l'art d. grav. d. l gt d craion penre du Roy et grav. d. Desseins du Cabinet de S.M.; in later hand, lower left verso on sticker: B.54
Wikidata ID
Q75426466