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La course

published 1801

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Artist, French, 1755 - 1832

Medium

color etching, engraving, and aquatint
Credit Line

Widener Collection
Accession

1942.9.1808.d
Catalogue Raisonné

Fenaille 1899, no. 126, State ii/iii

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Hero et Leandre

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, Chevalier de Querelles

1801

La tempeste

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

1801

La mort d'Hero

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

1801

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2003

Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 93, as Le Couronnement (The Crowning) from Le Chevalier de Quérelles, trans. "Héro et Léandre" by Philibert-Louis....

Bibliography

1899

Fenaille, Maurice. L'Oeuvre grave de P.L. Debucourt (1755-1832). Paris: Librairie Damascene Morgand, 1899.

Wikidata ID

Q64960995

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