Les Pêcheurs (The Fishermen)
1771
Artist, French, 1734 - 1781

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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