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Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after Jean-Baptiste Hüet, I after Jean-Augustin Léveillé

Allegorical Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Hüet, c. 1775

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Medium

chalk manner printed in red on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 20.6 x 27.6 cm (8 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

sheet: 25.9 x 33.7 cm (10 3/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips in memory of Jacqueline Getty Phillips

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, unidentified

Accession Number

1994.84.3

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

Jean-Augustin Léveillé (artist after) French, active second half 18th century

Jean-Baptiste Hüet (artist after) French, 1745 - 1811

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Inscription

around head in plate: J. BAPT. HUET NÉ le 22 OCTOBRE 1745 J. Aug.n l'Eveillé del.; lower left in plate: J.B. Huet del.; lower right in plate: Demarteau sculp.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B8339C.T.

Provenance

Neil and Ivan Phillips, Bedford, New York; gift to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Phillips, Ivan E., Mr.
Phillips, Ivan and Neil
Phillips, Neil F. Mr. and Mrs.

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896.