Louis XV

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder, after Jean-François Clermont

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red and black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.7 × 20.9 cm (12 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 45.8 × 30 cm (18 1/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.15.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 392

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Roland de Perthuis (Lugt 4237); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 392.

Inscriptions

across lower edge in plate: D'après Clermont Professeur de l'Acad. de Rheims; A Paris chés Cemartequ Graveur du Roi rue de la Pelterie à la Cloche; No. 392; by later hand, lower left verso in red chalk: 4020 / 281; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 100526

Wikidata ID

Q76561465

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