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Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Michel Moreau

Couronnement de Voltaire (The Crowning of Voltaire), 1782

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Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 26.8 × 29.7 cm (10 9/16 × 11 11/16 in.)

sheet: 30.1 × 39.6 cm (11 7/8 × 15 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bocher 1882, no. 261, State a, iv/vii

Accession Number

1946.11.110

Artists / Makers

Charles-Etienne Gaucher (artist) French, 1741 - 1804

Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger (artist after) French, 1741 - 1814

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: 1447; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Exhibition History

1984: Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984-1985, no. 87, repro.

Bibliography

1882: Bocher, Emmanuel. Jean Michel Moreau le jeune. Les gravures francaises du XVIIIe siecle, 6. Paris: Damascene Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1882.

1984: Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.87.

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