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Alexandre Briceau after Jean-Baptiste Hüet, I

The Four Seasons, 1780s

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown and blue with hand coloring on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 34 x 30.5 cm (13 3/8 x 12 in.)

sheet: 37.8 x 33.2 cm (14 7/8 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), undescribed

Accession Number

2004.83.1

Artists / Makers

Alexandre Briceau (artist) French, active 1770 - after 1788

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

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in image: A.B. f / Huet del

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

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

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 133, fig. 3.

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