Pierre Noel le Cauchois

1786

Louis-Jacques Cathelin, after Marie Therese Noireterre

Associated Names
Louis-Jacques Cathelin

Artist, French, 1738/1739 - 1804

Marie Therese Noireterre

Artist, French, active before 1785 - 1815

The image is an etching of a man in a portrait within an oval frame. He has light-colored, wavy hair and a pointed nose, wears a formal jacket with a high collar and a cravat. The frame has detailed decoration, with scattered sheets of paper below the portrait. The background is textured. Inscriptions at the top and bottom of the image provide his name and titles.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    plate: 16.9 × 11.1 cm (6 5/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.2 × 21.4 cm (10 5/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.122.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700), no. 100, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1930

  • IFF (1700): no. 100, ii/ii

Inscriptions

in image, in frame: PIERRE NOEL LE CAUCHOIS, / Avocat au Parlement du Normandie né a Rouen en 1740; in image on books: Justifications / des / S. Savaray 1762 / S. le Cannu 1764 / De Blanchard 1778 / Salut di Tirot 1779. Justifiactions / de / S. Le Ron 1779 / et de / la Jeune Salmon / 1786; in image on tablet: A l'aspect de ces traits ou vit la bienfaisance... / ...Contenu loi Justice! et tremble inequite; lower left in plate: Peint par Mlle. de Noireterre; lower right in plate: Gravé par Cathelin Graveur du Roi; lower cetner in plate: a Paris chez Mlle de Noireterre; lower right in plate: Gravé a Paris cheze Mlle de Noireterre Peintre en Miniature rue Mazarine No. 25; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 1er etat [remainder not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q76561106

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