Singerie with Four Vignettes of Dogs Hunting

1773

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

Jean-Baptiste Hüet

Artist, French, 1745 - 1811

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and chalk manner printed in brown-red

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.2 x 30.4 cm (7 15/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 25 × 30.5 cm (9 13/16 × 12 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.19.42

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 381

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory 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. 25.

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 381.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: J. B. Hüet f. 1773, Demarteau sculp.; lower center in plate: A Paris chés Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in plate: No. 381

Wikidata ID

Q76341115

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