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Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manne printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 52.9 x 35.9 cm (20 13/16 x 14 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 68 x 50.2 cm (26 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.156.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 403


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. 403.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Demarteau excud.; lower center in plate: dessiné par c. Vanloo premier Peintre / A Paris chès Demarteau Graveur rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche No. 43; by later hand, lower left in ink: No. 2 1/2

Wikidata ID

Q76341191


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