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Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 49.7 x 41 cm (19 9/16 x 16 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 69 x 49.6 cm (27 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.156.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 32

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Grossherzogliches Museum, Schwerin (Lugt 2273). Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 32.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Carle Vanloo fec in Roma / a Paris chez Demarteau rue de la Pelterie; lower center in plate: TIRÉ DU CABINET DE MONSIEUR LEMPEREUR; lower right in plate: Demarteau Inc St. / No. 32; by later hand, lower right in ink: No 2-1/2

Wikidata ID

Q76341184

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