Le Chateau de carte (The House of Cards)

1737

Pierre Filloeul

Artist/publisher, French, active 1730/1750

Jacques-Philippe Le Bas

Publisher, French, 1707 - 1783

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 27.1 × 30.7 cm (10 11/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.11.24

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Associated Artworks

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Oeuvres de J.B. Chardin, 1739-1749

Various Artists

1699

La Mere laborieuse

Bernard Lépicié

1740

Le Bénédicité (The Grace)

Renée Elisabeth Marlié Lépicié, Bernard Lépicié, Pierre Louis de Surugue

1744

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hippolyte Dreux (1800-1884), Paris (Lugt 1302)

Associated Names

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Chardin Pinx.; in plate, below image, at right: Filloeul Sculp.; in plate, below image, at center: LE CHATEAU DE CARTE / a Paris chez Filloeul à l'entrée de la ruë du Fouarre au bâtiment neuf / par la ruë Galande Avec Privilege du Roy / et chez Le Bas Graveur du Roi, rue de la Harpe; in plate, below image, at left [first quatrain] Vous vous moquer a tort de cet adolescent / Et de son inutile ouvrage / Prest a tomber au premier vent; in plate, below image, at right [second quatrain]: Barbons dans l'age meme ou l'on doit etre sage / Souvent il sort de vos serveaux / Deplus ridicules chateaux; on mount, in graphite, in later hand, at upper right: No. 24; on mount, in graphite, in later hand, at lower right: B.12, 973; verso: at lower left, in brown ink, in later hand: 10 / 12; at lower right, in brown ink, in later hand: HD [Hippolyte Dreux, Lugt 1302]

Markings

none

Watermarks

Auvergne watermark to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q65081818

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