Melpomene Presenting Marie-Antoinette with the Works of Metastasio

1783

Jean Jacques Le Veau

Artist, French, 1729 - 1785

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

    1942.9.1686

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bocher 1882, no. 35

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Associated Artworks

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Album of Portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette

Various Artists, René Simier

1770

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

1774

Marie-Antoinette

French 18th Century

1700

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

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