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Pierre Lacour the elder: French, 1745 - 1814

Venus and Cupid
1780: etching on laid paper; plate: 5.7 × 9.2 cm (2 1/4 × 3 5/8 in.); sheet: 10.1 × 15 cm (4 × 5 7/8 in.) (irregular); IFF (1800): undesc.; Katharine Shepard Fund; 2017.107.1; Not on View

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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.

Bibliography

1930: IFF (1700): undesc