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Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after François Boucher

Le Maraudeur (The Thief), c. 1769

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Medium

chalk manner printed in red ink

Dimensions

plate: 28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
image: 25.6 x 17.3 cm (10 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

Accession Number

1996.132.1

Artists / Makers

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

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 181

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Phillips, Bedford, NY; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 17b, as Le Maraudeur (The Thief) by Gilles Demarteau the Elder after François Boucher.

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896, no. 129.

1978: Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'oeuvre grave de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 17b.

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