The Personifications of the Arts and Sciences Pay Tribute to Carl Theodor von der Pfalz, 1783

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Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 45 × 26 cm (17 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

sheet: 45.5 × 27.5 cm (17 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 11, State i/ii

Accession Number

2020.47.4

Artists / Makers

Joseph Fratrel (artist) French, 1730 - 1783

Image Use

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Inscription

in image on obelisk: OPTIMO PRINCIPI / MUSARUM AMORI MINERVAE DELICIIS / MONUMNETUM / ABSENS DICABIT / BRUXELLES KAL. JAN. MDCCLXXIII / ACADEMIAE SCIENT PALATINE / OFFERABAT / JOSEPHUS FRATREL / IV IDUS MART MDCCLLXXIV / IDEM / EXARAVIT MANHEMII MDCCLXXVII; in plate, below image: Les Sciences les arts dans leur brillant Destin, / S'empressaent a l'envi de former son Cortège; / Tandisque les Vertus qu'il aime qu'il protege, / Lui méritent le Nom de Titus Palatin

Marks and Labels

H. Dargent, Rouen (Lugt 5248) (fragment with Fratrel's name)

Provenance

H. Dargent, Rouen (Lugt 5248). (Nicolaas Teeuwisse OHG, Paris); purchased 2019 by NGA

Associated Names

Nicolaas Teeuwisse OHG

Bibliography

1930: IFF (1700): no. 11, i/ii