Allegory of Conception or Allegory of Redemption

1783

Pierre Lelu

Artist, French, 1741 - 1810

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in red-brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • 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

  • 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


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