Composition with Antique Vases

1782

Jean Jacques Lagrenée II

Artist, French, 1739 - 1821

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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

    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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