Seated Nude Man, Seen from Behind, Pulling a Rope

c. 1760

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after Carle Van Loo

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red-brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 39.7 x 53.2 cm (15 5/8 x 20 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 46 × 58.6 cm (18 1/8 × 23 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.19.39

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, Baltimore; bequest to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 6.

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 30.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 6.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: No. 30; lower left in plate: Carle Vanloo f.; lower center in plate: Paris chez demarteau Rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche C. P. P.; lower right in plate: Demarteau l'ne Sculp.; by later hand, lower center in red chalk: O. F

Wikidata ID

Q76341179

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