Allegorical Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Hüet
c. 1775
Artist, French, 1722 - 1776
Artwork overview
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Medium
chalk manner printed in red on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips in memory of Jacqueline Getty Phillips
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Dimensions
plate: 20.6 x 27.6 cm (8 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
sheet: 25.9 x 33.7 cm (10 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1994.84.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Leymarie 1896, unidentified
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Neil and Ivan Phillips, Bedford, New York; gift to NGA, 1994.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1896
Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896.
Inscriptions
around head in plate: J. BAPT. HUET NÉ le 22 OCTOBRE 1745 J. Aug.n l'Eveillé del.; lower left in plate: J.B. Huet del.; lower right in plate: Demarteau sculp.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B8339C.T.
Watermarks
cross within circle, cut off
Wikidata ID
Q75125360