Le Maraudeur (The Thief)

c. 1769

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red ink

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

  • Dimensions

    plate: 28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
    image: 25.6 x 17.3 cm (10 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.132.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 129, proof before letters

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Phillips, Bedford, NY; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 17b, as Le Maraudeur (The Thief) by Gilles Demarteau the Elder after François Boucher.

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896, no. 129.

1978

  • Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'oeuvre grave de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 17b.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 181

Wikidata ID

Q75404099

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