Ornamental Frieze

1784-1785

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: 12.5 × 49.8 cm (4 15/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 43.1 × 57.5 cm (16 15/16 × 22 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.91.40

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Baudicour, no. undesc.

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. undesc.

1930

  • IFF (1700): no.58

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 162, fig. 9.

Watermarks

three lines

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