Louis XV
1739
Artist, German, 1667 - 1741
Artwork overview
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Medium
color mezzotint and etching printed in black, yellow, blue, carmine, brown, and white inks
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 60 x 44.3 cm (23 5/8 x 17 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1954.12.177
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 40, State only
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
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. 32.
1977
Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 61.
1982
Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 59, repro.
1984
Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984-1985, no. 24, repro.
2003
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 1, as Louis XV by Jakob Christoffel Le Blon after Nicholas Blakey.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger
1982
Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 59.
1984
Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.24.
1996
Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 314, 439-440; fig.5.50 (color plate), 466.
2003
Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 1.
Wikidata ID
Q65359067