Comte de Buffon
1798
Artist, French, 1736 - 1807

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving over etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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