Details from "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Pool at Bethesda"
1774
Artist, French, 1727 - 1791

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (counterproof) reworked in brown wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 18.6 x 13.1 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1996.128.39
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Catalogue Raisonné
Cayeux 1963, no. 292
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galerie Cailleux, Paris); purchased by Christian Humann; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1963
Cayeux Jean de. "Introduction au catalogue critique des griffonis de Saint-Non." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1963: pp. 297-384. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1964. Separately published. Paris Librairie Armand Colin, 1964.
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 79, fig. 6.
Inscriptions
center left in pen and brown ink: Sebastien Rizzi / cabinet de Smith a venise.; lower right in pen and brown ink: fragonard; upper center verso in pen and brown ink: celle ci est la mesure de la largeur / pour toutes
Wikidata ID
Q75125828