Melpomene Presenting Marie-Antoinette with the Works of Metastasio

1783

Jean Jacques Le Veau

Artist, French, 1729 - 1785

Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger

Artist After, French, 1741 - 1814

Jean Jacques Le Veau after Jean-Michel Moreau

Attributed to

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 23.4 × 16.7 cm (9 3/16 × 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.1686

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bocher 1882, no. 35

Media for this artwork is unavailable and the object is not on view. See artworks now on view

Associated Artworks

See all 34 artworks

Commemorative Medal on the Occasion of the Marriage of the Dauphin and Marie -Antoinette

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

1770

Album of Portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette

Various Artists, René Simier

1770

Death of Louis XV

Louis-Simon Lempereur, Nicolas Delaunay

1774

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1882

  • Bocher, Emmanuel. Jean Michel Moreau le jeune. Les gravures francaises du XVIIIe siecle, 6. Paris: Damascene Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1882.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, from left to right: J. M. Moreau le jeune, Del. 1783 J.J. Le Veau, Sculp.; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: [indecipherable]; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64959029

You may be interested in

Loading Results