The Bagpipe Player, 1739

Not on View

Medium

etching finished in engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 38.2 × 27.2 cm (15 1/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

sheet: 39.3 × 28.2 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Baudicour no. 5, State iii/iii

Accession Number

2014.37.6

Artists / Makers

Jacques Dumont Le Romain (artist) French, French, 1701 - 1781

Jean Daullé (artist) French, 1703 - 1763

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Peint et Gravé a l'eau fort par J. Dumont; lower center in plate: Ce Spectacle ambulant, concert simple et naif... / ...Court ou l'Art extravague, et la raison grimace...

Provenance

François Heugel, Paris (b. 1922) (Lugt 3373). (Paul Prouté S. A., Paris); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Heugel, François
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1859: Baudicour, Prosper de. Le peintre-graveur français continue, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole française nes dans le XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1859-1861, no. 5, iii/iii