Neptune, 1787

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Medium

chalk manner printed in black and beige on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 54.3 × 42.5 cm (21 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.)

sheet: 62.2 × 50.8 cm (24 1/2 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 655

Accession Number

2017.19.47

Artists / Makers

Gilles-Antoine Demarteau (artist) French, 1750 - 1802

Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier (artist after) French, 1743 - 1824

Raphael (artist after) Marchigian, 1483 - 1520

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Dessiné à Rome par Lemonier, Peintre/ d'après Raphael, à la Pharnésine en 1779. ; lower center in plate: A Paris chez Demarteau, Graveur. NEPTUNE. Cloître St. Benoit, Qer. St. Jacques; lower right in plate: Gravé par Demarteau en 1787 / No. 655

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); Mr. A. Thompson Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, Baltimore; bequest to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

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

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 655.