Vue d’une Laiterie près St. Maur-les-Paris (View of the Dairy near St. Maur-les-Paris)

c. 1772

Mademoiselle Le Roy

Artist, French, 18th century

Francoise Basset

Publisher, French, active c. 1785 - active 1792

Mademoiselle Le Roy, after Louis Le Sueur

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk-manner printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.4 × 41.4 cm (11 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.3 × 43.7 cm (13 1/8 × 17 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.37.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Didier Martinez, Paris); (Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Nashville, TN, 2012); purchased by NGA in 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower right in image: L Lesueur; upper left in plate: 3; upper right in plate: a.; lower center in plate: Vue d'une Laiterie près de St. Maur-les-Paris / A Paris chez Basset, rue Jacques, No. 670; in plate, below image, at left: "Dessiné d'après nature par le Sueur; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par Mlle Le Roy.

Watermarks

fragment (Maix?)

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