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Frédéric Cazenave after Louis-Léopold Boilly

L'Optique (The Optical Viewer), c. 1793

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Medium

etching and wash manner, inked à la poupée in black, brown, and green with hand coloring

Dimensions

plate: 55 x 45 cm (21 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

sheet: 55.9 x 47.8 cm (22 x 18 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 4, State proof before letters

Accession Number

2002.125.1

Artists / Makers

Frédéric Cazenave (artist) French, active 1793 - 1843

Louis-Léopold Boilly (artist after) French, 1761 - 1845

Image Use

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Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 85, as L'Optique (The Optical Viewer) by Frédéric Cazenave after Louis-Léopold Boilly.

Bibliography

1930: Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 85.

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