Secret derobé à un ami (Secret Stolen from a Friend)
1760s
Artist, French, 1725 - 1779

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper, inlaid in nineteenth-century paper mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 37.6 × 28.1 cm (14 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
mount: 37.5 × 28 cm (14 3/4 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2019.124.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
IFF (1800) no. 42
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York); purchased in 1982 by Victor Carlson [1934-2018], Chicago; (sale, Leslie Hindman Auctions, Chicago, 28 June 2019, no.148); (Susan Schulman, New York); purchased by NGA, 2019.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1930
IFF (1700): no. 42
Inscriptions
in plate, below image, at left: de La Live de J. Sculp.; in plate, below image, at center: Secret derobé à un ami; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Bacchus automate(?) / x22;
Watermarks
1742