Pierre-Jean Mariette

1765

Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Associated Names
Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1736 - 1807

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II

Artist After, French, 1715 - 1790

The image features a half-length profile portrait of a man facing to the right within an oval frame. The man has detailed facial features, including an aquiline nose and slightly curved lips. His hair is styled in a classic 18th-century fashion, possibly a powdered wig. He wears an elegant suit with a buttoned coat and a high-collared shirt. A decorative fabric bow adorns the top of the oval frame. The background is crosshatched, and beneath the frame, there is elegant script stating the individual's name and title as P. J. Mariette.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.2 x 14.3 cm (7 9/16 x 5 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.9 x 19.8 cm (10 9/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.2.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bocher 1879, no. 171, State iv/v

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1879

  • Bocher, Emmanuel. Augustin de Saint-Aubin. Les gravures francaises du XVIIIe siecle, 5. Paris: Damascene Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1879.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Dessine par C. N. Cochin en 1756.; lower right in plate: Grave par Aug. de St Aubin 1765.; lower center in plate: P. J. MARIETTE / Controleur general de la grande Chanceller ie, / Honoraire de l'Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, / ne a Paris le 7 mai 1694

Wikidata ID

Q74071212

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