Composition with Antique Vases
1782
Artist, French, 1739 - 1821

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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