Les Pêcheurs (The Fishermen)

1771

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

Artist, French, 1734 - 1781

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.2 × 23.2 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 34.2 × 24.2 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1990.134.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hedou 1879, no. 163, State only


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 21, as Les Pêcheurs (The Fishermen).

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1879

  • Hedou, Jules. Jean Le Prince et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Baur Libraire, 1879.

1990

  • Christopher Mendez, Cat.69, October 1990, 94.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 21.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 55, fig. 7.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Le Prince 1771-; below image, lower center in plate: les Pêcheurs; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 212-; by later hand, across bottom verso in graphite: John Baptiste Le Pr ince / Bryan Vol 2 Page 342

Wikidata ID

Q74887623


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