Marie-Antoinette, n.d.

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 28 x 19 cm (11 x 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 43.5 x 29.5 cm (17 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Catalogue Raisonné

Firmin-Didot 'Portraits', no. 539, State (Dupin, N.)

Accession Number

1985.44.8

Artists / Makers

Nicolas Dupin (artist) French, 1753 - 1805 or after

Carle Van Loo (artist after) French, 1705 - 1765

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below oval portrait: Marie Antoinette / ARCHIDUC.E D'AUTRICHE SOEUR DE L'EMPER .R / REINE DE FRANCE, / Née à Vienne le 2 Novembre 1755.; in plate, below image at left: Peint par Vanloo; in plate, below image at right: Gravé par Dupin fils; in plate, below image, at center: A Paris chés Esnauts et Rapilly rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances. A.P.D.R.; at bottom right in graphite in later hand: C-SKK; verso: at upper right in graphite in later hand: 40

Marks and Labels

none

Bibliography

1875: Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les graveurs de portraits en France; catalogue raisonne de la collection des portraits de l'ecole francaise. 2 vols. Paris:Firmin-Didot, 1875-1877.

1959: I.F.F. 1700 (1930-70), vol.8, p.257, 29 (Dupin, Jean-Pierre-Julien).