Fantastic Flowers with Peapod Leaves

1795

Anne Allen

Artist, French, active 1790s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching inked à la poupée in green, red, blue, purple, and golden brown on pale green paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 x 13.9 cm (7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 26.7 x 23.6 cm (10 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.60.1


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Fantastic Chinese Flowers, No. 3.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 90, as Fantastic Flowers with Peapod Leaves by Anne Allen after Jean-Baptiste Pillement.

Bibliography

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 90.

Wikidata ID

Q74069598


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