The Old Peasant Girard

1772

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu

Artist, French, 1736 - 1810

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 28.2 x 20.9 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 37.5 x 27.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.9.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boissieu 1878, no. 64, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James Bergquist, New York); purchased by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1878

  • Boissieu, Alphonse de. J.J. de Boissieu, catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Rapilly; and Lyons: Auguste Brun, 1878.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: une Monogram / tre rare / Reg. 17. / 4-; by later hand, center verso in pen and black ink: U.S. g.f.a.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: C / 245. / Reg. No. 17

Wikidata ID

Q75394983

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