La malheureuse famille Calas (The Unfortunate Calas Family)
c. 1765
Artist, French, 1721 - 1775
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Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of John O'Brien, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 36 x 45.8 cm (14 3/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.23.1
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