Composition with Antique Vases

1782

Jean Jacques Lagrenée II

Associated Names
Jean Jacques Lagrenée II

Artist, French, 1739 - 1821

The image shows several large classical vases and urns with intricate designs, relief sculptures of figures, and decorative motifs. The color palette is dominated by sepia tones with variations in brown shades. A large urn is positioned centrally, slightly left from center, with a pedestal adorned with sculpted figures in the foreground. A smaller urn is displayed on a wall niche in the upper right. A large, embellished urn with climbing vines is in the upper center. Other urns and vases, some with figurative depictions, are in the lower right section, and decorative remnants are scattered on the right edge.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.8 × 29.1 cm (8 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 44 × 59.5 cm (17 5/16 × 23 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.91.38

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Baudicour, no. 50, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1859

  • de Baudicour, Prosper. Le peintre-graveur français continué, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française nés dans le XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1861, no. 50, ii/ii

1930

  • IFF (1700): no. 52

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 163, fig. 10.

Inscriptions

In plate, in image, at lower left: Lagrenée Sculp a 1782

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