L'Optique (The Optical Viewer)
c. 1793
Artist, French, active 1793 - 1843
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Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and wash manner, inked à la poupée in black, brown, and green with hand coloring
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Credit Line
Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison
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Dimensions
plate: 55 x 45 cm (21 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
sheet: 55.9 x 47.8 cm (22 x 18 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2002.125.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
IFF (1700), no. 4, State proof before letters
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2002 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2003
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 85, as L'Optique (The Optical Viewer) by Frédéric Cazenave after Louis-Léopold Boilly.
Bibliography
1930
Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.
2003
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 85.
Wikidata ID
Q76340305