Les Deux Baisers (The Two Kisses)

1786

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Associated Names
Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Artist, French, 1755 - 1832

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching and wash manner on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (including framing line): 27.6 × 36.9 cm (10 7/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 36.3 × 42.5 cm (14 5/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1942.9.2255

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fenaille 1899, no. 7, State ii/iii

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. 57, as Les Deux Baisers (The Two Kisses).

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. 57.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Peint et Gravé par DeBucourt, Peintre du Roi, 1786

Markings

recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q64961021

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