Details from "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Pool at Bethesda"

1774

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Artist, French, 1727 - 1791

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (counterproof) reworked in brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 18.6 x 13.1 cm (7 5/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.128.39

  • 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

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