Oboe Player, 1782

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Medium

etching, drypoint, and roulette touched with gray wash on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 26 x 35 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 27.9 x 38 cm (11 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Boissieu 1878, no. 82, State iii or iv/vii [proof]

Accession Number

1999.63.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (artist) French, 1736 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: DB. (in monogram) 1782; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 9; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B.v.82 iv/vii xx1/ih

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1878: Boissieu, Alphonse de. J.J. de Boissieu, catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Rapilly; and Lyons: Auguste Brun, 1878.