Louis Cesar de La Baume-le-Blanc, 1757

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19 x 14.2 cm (7 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)

sheet: 26.9 x 19.3 cm (10 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John O'Brien

Accession Number

1989.84.8

Artists / Makers

Charles-Nicolas Cochin II (artist) French, 1715 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Courtisan, Philosophe, enjoue, studieux, / Il cultive les Arts, les plaisirs, la sagesse / Il amuse, il instruit, il plait, il interesse / So n esprit vous seduit, son coeur vous rend heureux. / C.N. Cochin filius delin. et Sculp. 1757.; the following all by later hand, lC //in brown ink: Louis Cesar de la Beaume le Blanc, duc de la Valliere, ne en 1708. mort en 1780; lRv//in graphite: 11b

Provenance

S.L.

Associated Names

O'Brien, John, Mr.