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series Title

Recueil de compositions par Lagrenée le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

Medium

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper (proof)

Dimensions

plate: 21.6 × 29 cm (8 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)

sheet: 22 × 29.8 cm (8 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter

Catalogue Raisonné

Baudicour, no. 47

Accession Number

2019.25.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Jacques Lagrenée II (artist) French, 1739 - 1821

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, on monument: RECEUIL / DECOMPOSITIONS / PAR LAGRÉNÉE LEJEUNE; in plate, in image, at lower right: en 1782; verso: by later hand, lower right in graphite: 100957

Provenance

François Heugel [1922-2010], Paris (Lugt 3373); (Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Heugel, François
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1859: de Baudicour, Prosper. Le peintre-graveur français continué, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française nés dans le XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1861: no. 47

1930: IFF (1700): no. 49

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 169, fig. 11.