L'aveu difficile (The Difficult Confession)

1787

Jean-François Janinet

Artist, French, 1752 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 36.3 x 28.6 cm (14 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
    plate: 48.7 x 36.3 cm (19 3/16 x 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.2367

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 39, State i

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.

1962

  • Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 45.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 60, as L'Aveu difficile (The Difficult Confession).

Bibliography

1875

  • Bocher, Emmanuel. Nicolas Lavreince. Les gravures francaises du XVIIIe siecle, 1. Paris, 1875: 8 i/iii.

1880

  • Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 60.

Wikidata ID

Q64959195

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