Neptune

1787

Gilles-Antoine Demarteau

Artist, French, 1750 - 1802

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in black and beige on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 54.3 × 42.5 cm (21 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 62.2 × 50.8 cm (24 1/2 × 20 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.19.47

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 655

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); Mr. A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, Baltimore; bequest to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 655.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Dessiné à Rome par Lemonier, Peintre/ d'après Raphael, à la Pharnésine en 1779. ; lower center in plate: A Paris chez Demarteau, Graveur. NEPTUNE. Cloître St. Benoit, Qer. St. Jacques; lower right in plate: Gravé par Demarteau en 1787 / No. 655

Wikidata ID

Q76341250

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