L'Optique (The Optical Viewer)

c. 1793

Frédéric Cazenave

Artist, French, active 1793 - 1843

Finot

Publisher, French, active 18th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and wash manner, printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 67.5 x 53.5 cm (26 9/16 x 21 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 70.3 x 57.4 cm (27 11/16 x 22 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.59.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), no. 4, State proof

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1930

  • Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977: no. 4, proof

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Peint par L. Boilly; lower right in plate: Gravé pr F. Cazenave; lower center: L'Optique / A Paris chez l'Auteur, Rue Jacques No 15 en face de la rue de la parcheminerie / Imprimé par Finot

Wikidata ID

Q76560822

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