Allegory on the Death of the Dauphin

1767

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red-brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35.5 x 22.5 cm (14 x 8 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 46.3 x 32.3 cm (18 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1988.33.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 141

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no 141.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: C.N. Cochin filius inv.et delin.; lower right in plate: Demarteau l'Aine sculp.; across bottom in plate: Nempe quod injecit secreta modestia, velum / Scinditur, et vitae gloria morte patet ausen. / LA MORT A REVELE LE SECRET DE SA VIE.; lower left in plate: No. 141 de l'oeuvre; lower center in plate: A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de / la Pelterie a la Cloche.; lower center below plate mark in graphite: Allegorie sur les Vertus et Occupations du Dauphin.; lower center in graphite: rB

Wikidata ID

Q74878035

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