Noce de Village (Village Wedding)

1785

Charles-Melchior Descourtis after Nicolas Antoine Taunay

Associated Names
Charles-Melchior Descourtis

Artist, French, 1753 - 1820

Nicolas Antoine Taunay

Artist After, French, 1755 - 1830

The image captures a scene from an elevated point of view showing a gathering of people under a large tent. The background includes a canopy, a tree line, and people interacting inside and outside the tent. The painting has soft brushstrokes creating a dreamlike atmosphere. The color palette includes warm pinks, soft greens, and muted browns. In the foreground, a woman in a white dress holds flowers with two children and a dog. In the distance, groups of people sit together, with trees and soft clouds in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching and wash-manner engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (outer framing line): 31.1 x 23.4 cm (12 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.84

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marquis de Varennes. (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 3 June 1955, lot 45 [set of 10 prints]). Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1958.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 46.

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. 97h, repro.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 55h.

Bibliography

1984

  • Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.97h.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 55h.

Watermarks

FIN / T DUPVY / AUVERGNE 1742

Wikidata ID

Q65222269

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