L'Optique (The Optical Viewer), c. 1793

Not on View

Medium

etching and wash manner, printed in black

Dimensions

plate: 67.5 x 53.5 cm (26 9/16 x 21 1/16 in.)

sheet: 70.3 x 57.4 cm (27 11/16 x 22 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 4, State proof

Accession Number

2012.59.2

Artists / Makers

Frédéric Cazenave (artist) French, active 1793 - 1843

Louis-Léopold Boilly (artist after) French, 1761 - 1845

Finot (publisher) French, active 18th century

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Peint par L. Boilly; lower right in plate: Gravé pr F. Cazenave; lower center: L'Optique / A Paris chez l'Auteur, Rue Jacques No 15 en face de la rue de la parcheminerie / Imprimé par Finot

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1930: Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977: no. 4, proof