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Pierre Lacour the elder

Venus and Cupid, 1780

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 5.7 × 9.2 cm (2 1/4 × 3 5/8 in.)

sheet: 10.1 × 15 cm (4 × 5 7/8 in.) (irregular)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Accession Number

2017.107.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre Lacour the Elder (artist) French, 1745 - 1814

Image Use

Open Access image.
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Inscription

lower left in plate: Lacour 1780; lower right in graphite: Lacour 1780; graphite sketch of two heads on verso

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1930: IFF (1700): undesc

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