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Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

Oeuvre de J. B. Le Prince Sur les Moeurs, les Coutumes et les Habillemens de différents Peuples, Gravé en partie à l'Eau Forte et le reste par le procédé qu'il a inventé pour produire l'effet des Desseins lavés, in or after 1770

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Oeuvre de J. B. Le Prince Sur les Moeurs, les Coutumes et les Habillemens de différents Peuples, Gravé en partie à l'Eau Forte et le reste par le procédé qu'il a inventé pour produire l'effet des Desseins lavés

Medium

Bound volume with engraved title page, 88 etchings, and 36 etchings and aquatints printed in brown on laid paper [plus one loose etching and engraving by Guillaume-Philippe Benoist after Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (see 1942.9.1640)]

Dimensions

book (volume closed): 56.7 × 42 × 3 cm (22 5/16 × 16 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
page size: 55.5 × 40 cm (21 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.1639.1-53

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (artist) French, 1734 - 1781

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Marks and Labels

Stamps on marbled interior front cover:

Crest with lion: AW / No. 7969

Bookplate with ornamental frame and vase etc: Gentilz ouuriers qui d’un foing curieux / Allez cherchant es plus vielles reliques / Venez icy & aux proffitz publiques / imitez-en les plus laborieux…. / I. BULLANT / EX LIBRIS H. DESTAILLEUR

Stamp with crest with ornamented letters, S R ?

Stamp with crest with cross: EX LIBRIS JOSEPG WIDENER

Provenance

Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur, Paris (bookplate)

Associated Names

Destailleur, Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter
Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 20, as La Danse russe (The Russian Dance).

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

Bibliography

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col.626-627.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 20.

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 49, fig. 2.