Triumphal Arch

1759

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Artist, French, 1736 - 1810

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.3 x 14.5 cm (4 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.9 x 15 cm (4 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.150.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boissieu 1878, no. 7, State i/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Boston); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1878

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

Inscriptions

on tablet in image: paisages Dessinés & / gravés / par JJ DB (in monogram) / a Lyon / 1759; by later hand, upper left of mount in graphite: L.B. 122; by later hand, lower center of mount in graphite: 1re. Epreuve d'eau-forte pure.; by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: 94.

Wikidata ID

Q76345637


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