Jacques-Onesyme Bergeret de Grancourt

1770

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder, after Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Associated Names
Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist After, French, 1732 - 1806

The image depicts a man seated in a chair. He is leaning slightly to his right, with his right arm resting on the backrest of the chair. The man has a round face with short, wavy hair. He is dressed in an 18th-century style outfit, including a long coat, waistcoat, knee-length breeches, stockings, and buckled shoes. Beside him is a table with books visible on it. The background is softly shaded and textured.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 38.9 × 30 cm (15 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.1 × 35.2 cm (18 9/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.15.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 251

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Roland de Perthuis (not in Lugt). (Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 251.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Fagonard [sic] inv. del; lower center in plate: Du Cabinet de Monsieur Bergeret / A Paris chés Demartequ Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie à la cloche; lower right in plate: Demarteau l'aine sc. / No. 251; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 100504

Wikidata ID

Q76561467

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