Les Plaisirs paternels (Paternal Pleasures)

c. 1797

Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Associated Names
Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Artist, French, 1755 - 1832

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (outer framing line): 46.6 x 36.6 cm (18 3/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
    plate: 51.7 x 38.3 cm (20 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1976.71.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fenaille 1899, no. 63, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1984

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 92, as Les Plaisirs paternels (Paternal Pleasures) by Philibert-Louis Debucourt.

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. 92.

Wikidata ID

Q65576137

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