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Frédéric Cazenave after Louis-Léopold Boilly

Frédéric Cazenave: French, active 1793 - 1843

Louis-Léopold Boilly: French, 1761 - 1845

L'Optique (The Optical Viewer)
c. 1793: etching and wash manner, inked à la poupée in black, brown, and green with hand coloring; 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.); IFF (1700), no. 4, State proof before letters; Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Andrew Robison; 2002.125.1; Not on View

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Provenance

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

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.