Allegory of Conception or Allegory of Redemption
1783
Artist, French, 1741 - 1810

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in red-brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 56.4 × 37.5 cm (22 3/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
sheet: 58.4 × 43.1 cm (23 × 16 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.91.46
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Catalogue Raisonné
Baudicour no. 73, State ii or iii/iv
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
Baudicour, Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1859-1861.
1930
Baudicour, Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1859-1861: no. 59, unknown state
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 59, fig. 10.
Inscriptions
In plate, in image, at lower right: P Lélu fecit 1783 [in reverse]; in plate, below image, at left: Giorgio da Rezzo inv Pietro Lélu Sculp. 1783