La malheureuse famille Calas (The Unfortunate Calas Family)

c. 1765

Jean-Baptiste Delafosse

Artist, French, 1721 - 1775

Jean-Baptiste Delafosse, after Louis de Carrogis, called Carmontelle

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 36.

Inscriptions

below image, lower left in plate: L.C. DeCarmontelle delineavit 1765.; lower right in plate: DelafoBe Sculpsit.; lower center in plate: LA MALHEUREUSE FAMILLE CALAS. / La Mere, les deux Filles, avec Jeanne Viguiere, leur bonne Servante, le Fils et son ami, le jeune Lavayfse. / Qualibus in teneb ris vitae quantifque periclis / Degitur hoc aevi quodcumque eft. Lucret . / Avec Privilege du Roi; uL //in graphite: 1762; lLv//in graphite: 614212

Wikidata ID

Q74887634


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