Comte de Buffon

1798

Augustin de Saint-Aubin

Artist, French, 1736 - 1807

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving over etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John O'Brien

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22.1 x 14.8 cm (8 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 32.5 x 25.1 cm (12 13/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.88.20

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bocher 1879, no. 31, State iii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre Defer-Henri Dumesnil (Lugt 739)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1879

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

Inscriptions

around circumference in plate bottom of medallion: Sauvage pinx.; lower center in plate on top scroll: HISTOIRE / NATURELLE; lower center in plate on bottom scroll: Theorie de la Terre.; lower center in plate below ledge: Nat uram ampleotitur omnem; lCp//below frame: A.S.[in monogram] fecit.

Wikidata ID

Q74875502


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