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Medium

chalk manner printed in red on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 49.7 x 41 cm (19 9/16 x 16 1/8 in.)

sheet: 69 x 49.6 cm (27 3/16 x 19 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 32

Accession Number

2005.156.1

Artists / Makers

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

Carle Van Loo (artist after) French, 1705 - 1765

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Carle Vanloo fec in Roma / a Paris chez Demarteau rue de la Pelterie; lower center in plate: TIRÉ DU CABINET DE MONSIEUR LEMPEREUR; lower right in plate: Demarteau Inc St. / No. 32; by later hand, lower right in ink: No 2-1/2

Provenance

Grossherzogliches Museum, Schwerin (Lugt 2273). Ellwanger/Mescha Collection, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.
Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.
Grossherzogliches Museum

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 32.