Caffeé des Patriotes - A Patriot's Coffée House

1792

Jean-Baptiste Morret

Artist, French, active 1789 - 1820

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.2469


Artwork history & notes

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64959135


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