La Fuite à dessein (The Pre-Arranged Flight), 1783

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 37.1 × 28.9 cm (14 5/8 × 11 3/8 in.)

sheet: 43 × 34.5 cm (16 15/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.2139

Artists / Makers

Charles François Adrien Macret (artist) French, 1751 - 1789

Jacques Couché (artist) French, 1750 or 1759 - 1802 or after

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist after) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Peint par h. Fragonard.; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par C. Macret et Couché, 1783.; in plate, below image at center: LA FUITE A DESSEIN / VICI VICTURUS VIVO [in coat-of-arms]; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as La fuite à dessein (The Flight by Design).

2004: The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York; Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 2004-2005.