Young Girl Reading "Héloise and Abélard", 1770

Not on View

Medium

chalk manner printed in black, blue, and red

Dimensions

image: 19.8 × 15.1 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.)

sheet ((trimmed within plate mark)): 21.9 × 16.6 cm (8 5/8 × 6 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 218

Accession Number

1998.63.9

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: F. Boucher in del.; lower right in plate: Demarteau L.ne Scul.; across bottom in plate: Troisieme Estampes à plusieurs Crayons, à Paris chés Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelleterie à la Cloche . No. 218

Provenance

(André Candillier, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Candillier, André, M.

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 22, as Young Girl Reading "Héloise and Abélard" 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. 218.

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. 22.

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 5, fig. 2.