Democritus in Meditation

c. 1741

Jacques-Fabien Gautier Dagoty

Artist, French, 1716 - 1785

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching and mezzotint on laid paper mounted on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 51.7 × 58.5 cm (20 3/8 × 23 1/16 in.)
    mount: 57.1 × 72 cm (22 1/2 × 28 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.44

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), no. 83

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view. See artworks now on view

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Artemis Fine Art, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 1, 1999; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.

Inscriptions

recto: in black plate, at bottom right: Salvator Rose pinxit / Jacques Gautier 17 [indecipherable] / grave en couleur par; verso: on mount, at lower right in graphite in later hand: 12

Markings

none

Wikidata ID

Q76342766

You may be interested in

Loading Results