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Etienne Fessard after Jean Siméon Chardin

Dame cachetant une lettre (Woman Sealing a Letter), 1738

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 38.8 × 28.6 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
plate: 28.5 × 23.8 cm (11 1/4 × 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.2151

Artists / Makers

Etienne Fessard (artist/publisher) French, 1714 - 1777

Jean Siméon Chardin (artist after) French, 1699 - 1779

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Inscription

in plate, at lower left: Chardin Pinx. 1732; in plate, at lower right: E. Fessard Sculp.

Provenance

C. Bayard, Lyon (Lugt 496)

Associated Names

Bayard, C.
Widener, Joseph E.

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