Caffeé des Patriotes - A Patriot's Coffée House, 1792

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Medium

color etching and wash manner, printed in blue, red, yellow, and black inks, on laid paper

Dimensions

Overall (outer framing line): 28.1 x 54 cm (11 1/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
plate: 41.3 x 61.8 cm (16 1/4 x 24 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.2469

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Morret (artist) French, active 1789 - 1820

Jacques-François-Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines (artist after) French, 1769 - 1823

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Swedbach, des Fontaines, del.; in plate, below image, at right: J.B. Morret sculp.; in plate, below image, at center: Caffée des Patriotes. a Patriot's Coffée House / A Paris Chez Morret Graveur, rue de la Bucherie, No. 26. / Imprimé par Gayant le jeune

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 84, as Caffée des Patriotes - A Patriot's Coffée House by Jean-Baptiste Morret after Jacques-François-Joseph....

Bibliography

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 84.