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Anne Allen after Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Arabesque with a Monkey, early 1760s

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series Title

Nouvelle Suites de Cahiers Arabesques Chinois (1991.186.1-5)

Medium

color etching inked à la poupée on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.3 x 13.7 cm (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.)

sheet: 22.3 x 17 cm (8 3/4 x 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1991.186.3

Artists / Makers

Anne Allen (artist) French, active 1790s

Jean-Baptiste Pillement (artist after) French, 1728 - 1808

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Inscription

lower left in plate: J. Pillement in.; lower right in plate: Anne allen S.

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 34.

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Chinese Ornament with a Monkey.

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