Three Cherubs Playing on Dolphin Like Wave

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Medium

chalk manner printed in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.1 x 39.3 cm (11 7/16 x 15 1/2 in.)

sheet: 41.3 x 54.6 cm (16 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 133

Accession Number

2002.156.2

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: a Paris chez Demarteau; lower center in plate: Rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in plate: Demarteau Iné Sculpsit. / No 133

Provenance

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.
Ellwanger, III, A. Thompson

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 133.