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1790s

Jean-Philippe-Guy le Gentil, Comte de Paroy

Artist, French, 1750 - 1824

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint with roulette on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.3 × 16.5 cm (10 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 30.5 × 19 cm (12 × 7 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.111.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc 1854-1888: undesc.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Bonafous-Murat, Paris); (Galerie Martinez D, Paris); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: undesc.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 149, fig. 1.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at upper left, in blue pencil, in later hand: 35 No. 2 [?]; at upper right, in graphite, in later hand: par le Cte de Paroy; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: E 19 / bbb / A40467

Markings

none

Watermarks

dovecote [fragment]

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