The Old Peasant Girard, 1772

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Boissieu 1878, no. 64, State iii/iii

Accession Number

1996.9.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (artist) French, 1736 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Bibliography

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