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Salomon Gessner (author); Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (artist); (etcher/engravers after Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier): French 18th Century, François Alix, Jean-Louis Delignon, Charles-Etienne Gaucher, François Godefroy, Louis-Michel Halbou, C. Lépine, Joseph de Longueil, Nicolas Ponce, Jean Louis Charles Pauquet, G. Texier, N. Thomas, Philippe Triere, and Michel Huber (translator)

Oeuvres de Salomon Gessner (Tome I), 1786-1793

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Medium

bound volume (first of three) with etched and engraved illustrations: 1 title page, 1 frontispiece, 31 plates, 31 tailpieces, and 2 headpieces

Dimensions

page size: 28.4 x 21.2 cm (11 3/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 29.2 x 21.9 cm (11 1/2 x 8 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Cohen 1912, no. 433-434

Accession Number

2002.74.1

Artists / Makers

Salomon Gessner (author) Swiss, 1730 - 1788

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier I (artist) French, 1738 - 1826

French 18th Century (artist)

François Alix (engraver) French, 1753 - 1794

Jean-Louis Delignon (engraver) French, 1755 - c. 1804

Charles-Etienne Gaucher (engraver) French, 1741 - 1804

François Godefroy (engraver) French, 1743 - 1819

Louis-Michel Halbou (engraver) French, 1730 - probably 1809

C. Lépine (engraver) French, died 1808

Joseph de Longueil (engraver) French, 1730 - 1792

Nicolas Ponce (engraver) French, 1746 - 1831

Jean Louis Charles Pauquet (engraver) French, 1759 - c. 1824

G. Texier (engraver) French, born 1750

N. Thomas (engraver) French, c. 1750 - 1812

Philippe Triere (engraver) French, 1756 - c. 1815

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier I (artist after) French, 1738 - 1826

Michel Huber (translator) 1727 - 1804

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Provenance

(Wolfgang J. Kaiser, Kaiser am Main); purchased 2002 by NGA

Associated Names

Kaiser, Wolfgang J.

Bibliography

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1912: 433-434.

1982: Ray, Gordon N. The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700 to 1914. 2 vols. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; and Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982: 1:77-79, no. 39.