Merope, 1750

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 16.7 × 12.8 cm (6 9/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

sheet: 17.4 × 13.6 cm (6 7/8 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dacier 1914, no. 4

Accession Number

1964.8.1505

Artists / Makers

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (artist) French, 1724 - 1780

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image at left: Gabriel de Saint aubin f. t. 1750; in plate, below image, at center: Mèroppe. acte 5; verso: at lower right in brown ink: Ernest Devaulx / 1880 (Lugt 670); at center in graphite in later hand: No 217

Marks and Labels

recto: none; verso: Henri Joachim Delacroix (Lugt 3604), unidentified mark ["Cont...ie / T. P." in oval stamped in blue, above which is written in brown ink "No. 2177", and National Gallery of Art

Provenance

Ernest-Théophile Devaulx (1831-1901), Paris, 1880 (Lugt 670). Henri Joachim Delacroix (1873-1937), Paris (Lugt 3604)

Associated Names

Delacroix, Henri Joachim
Devaulx, Ernest-Théophile
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.