Fantastic Flowers with Oyster-shell Blossoms

c. 1795

Anne Allen

Artist, French, active 1790s

Anne Allen after Jean-Baptiste Pillement

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.6 x 13.8 cm (7 11/16 x 5 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 26 x 23.3 cm (10 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1985.60.2


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 91, as Fantastic Flowers with Oyster-Shell Blossoms 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. 91.

Wikidata ID

Q74069618


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