Singerie with Four Vignettes of Dogs Hunting, 1773

Not on View

Medium

etching and chalk manner printed in brown-red

Dimensions

plate: 20.2 x 30.4 cm (7 15/16 x 11 15/16 in.)

sheet: 25 × 30.5 cm (9 13/16 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 381

Accession Number

2017.19.42

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

Jean-Baptiste Hüet (artist) French, 1745 - 1811

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: J. B. Hüet f. 1773, Demarteau sculp.; lower center in plate: A Paris chés Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in plate: No. 381

Provenance

A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore; bequest to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 25.

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 381.