Design for a Fan: Courtly Figures in a Landscape, mid 17th century

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 28.4 x 21.5 cm (11 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Meaume 1860, no. 1006, State (the copy)

Accession Number

1994.47.2

Artists / Makers

Noël Cochin (printmaker) French, 1622 - 1695

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Balthasar Moncornet ex a paris Cum pri; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: No 1006 . 1er Etat. 3.00; by later hand, center verso in graphite: No 1006 / L'Eventail representant / un danse

Provenance

Probably Gosselin, Paris; acquired February 1912 by Henri Vever [1854-1942], Paris.[1 Christopher Mendez, London; purchased 1994 by NGA.

[1] Henri Vever papers, Freer-Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, lists a "Colin Maillard" etching by Cochin aquired on this date.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher
Vever, Henri

Bibliography

1860: Meaume, Edouard. Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot. 2 vols. Paris: Vve Jules Renouard, 1860.