Le Scélérat Damiens
1757
Artist, French, 1724 - 1780

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14.7 × 12.8 cm (5 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
plate: 16.8 × 13.5 cm (6 5/8 × 5 5/16 in.)
sheet: 18.5 × 14.6 cm (7 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1952.8.293
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dacier 1914, no. 13, State only
Artwork history & notes
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. 34, repro.
Bibliography
1914
Dacier, Emile. L'oeuvre grave de Gabriel de Saint-Aubin; notice biographique et catalogue raisonne. Paris: Societe pour l'Etude de la Gravure Francaise, 1914.
1984
Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.34.
Inscriptions
recto: in plate, below image, at left: né le 5 janvier 1757 exécuté le 28 mars 1757; in plate, below image, at center: LE SECERAT DAMIENS; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin / 1757 / Dacier 13 / only state; at bottom center in graphite in later hand: 300
Markings
recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65224402