Colonade et Jardins du Palais Medicis (Colonnade and Gardens of the Medici Palace)

c. 1776

Jean-François Janinet

Artist, French, 1752 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and wash-manner printed in yellow, blue, red, and blackon pale green paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. Phillips and Jacqueline Getty Phillips

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark at top & bottom): 29.1 x 24.4 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.30.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 83

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 83, repro.

1994

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, NGA, 2003, no. 37b.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 37b, as Colonade et jardins du palais Medicis (Colonnade and Gardens of the Palazzo Medici).

Bibliography

1880

  • Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.

1930

  • I.F.F. 1700, vol.12, p.73-74, no.172.

1990

  • Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 83.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 37b.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate within and below image: H. Robert pinx; lower right in plate within and below image: F. Janinet sculp.; across bottom in plate: COLONADE ET JARDINS DU PALAIS MEDICIS. / Tire du Cabinet de Mr le Comte de Baudouin, / Brigadier des Armees du Roi, Capitaine aux Gardes Francoises. /

Watermarks

Unidentified letters (Paris, 18th century?)

Wikidata ID

Q74072203

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