Qu'en dit l'Abbé?

1788

Nicolas Delaunay

Artist, French, 1739 - 1792

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 48.1 x 35.5 cm (18 15/16 x 14 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.2399

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 26

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.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 141.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as Qu'en dit l'Abbé? (What Says the Abbé?).

Bibliography

1880

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

1987

  • Taylor, Sean J. "Pendants and Commercial Ploys: Formal and Informal Relationships in the Work of Nicolas Delaunay." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschicte 50, no 4(1987): 509-538.

Wikidata ID

Q64960758

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