Monsieur Frère du Roi (The King's Brother), 1789

Not on View

Medium

wash manner, printed in blue, red, carmine, yellow, orange, green and black inks

Dimensions

image: 20.3 x 14.2 cm (8 x 5 9/16 in.)

sheet: 20.9 x 14.7 cm (8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Accession Number

2000.132.1

Artists / Makers

Antoine-François Sergent (artist) French, 1751 - 1847

Joseph Siffred Duplessis (artist after) French, 1725 - 1802

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left below image: Duplessis px. (partially cut off); lower right below image: A. Sergent sc.; lower center below image: 1789; in image across top of frame: MONSIEUR FRERE DU ROI; in image across bottom frame: Né le 17 Nov. 1755; by later hand, upper verso in graphite: Monsieur, frère du Roi Louis XVI / Louis Stanislas Xavier Conte de Provence / 1755 - 1824 / afterwards Louis XVIIIth; by later hand, lower verso in graphite: after Duplessis?; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: P.6785

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

McCarron, Paul

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 75, as Monsieur Frère du Roi (The King's Brother) by Antoine-François Sergent after Joseph-Siffred Duplessis.

Bibliography

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 75.