Le Compliment ou La Matinée du jour de l'an (The Compliment or New Year's Morning)

1787

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Artist, French, 1755 - 1832

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and wash manner, printed in blue, red, yellow, carmine, and black inks

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    Overall (outer framing line): 30 x 25.1 cm (11 13/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed at or just within platemark): 36.7 x 28.6 cm (14 7/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.2253

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fenaille 1899, no. 15, State iii/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1944

  • French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 67, as Le Compliment ou La Matinée du jour de l'an (The Compliment or New Year's Morning).

Bibliography

1899

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

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 67.

Wikidata ID

Q64961018

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