Three Cherubs Playing on Dolphin Like Wave

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

François Boucher

Artist After, French, 1703 - 1770

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after François Boucher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.1 x 39.3 cm (11 7/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 41.3 x 54.6 cm (16 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.156.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 133

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 133.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: a Paris chez Demarteau; lower center in plate: Rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in plate: Demarteau Iné Sculpsit. / No 133

Wikidata ID

Q76341136

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