Efficiunt mores uxoris...

1597

Robert Boissard

Artist, French, born 1570

Robert Boissard after Jean-Jacques Boissard

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19.2 x 13.4 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.139.119

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, 1854-1888, no. 19 i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Demany [born c. 1887], Paris [L. 780b]. Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels.... Paris, 1854-1888, no. 19.

Inscriptions

lower margin in plate: Efficiunt mores uxoris amabile nomen, / Forma est haud constans, nec diurturnis amor,; by later hand, upper right verso, in graphite, 58

Markings

stamp, verso lower left, in purple ink: seraph [L. 780b]

Wikidata ID

Q76559350

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