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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26165
People
Jean-Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, French (Paris 1727 - 1791 Paris)
After Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Satyr Embracing a Nymph Seated on His Lap
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Griffonis d'apres Fragonard
Original Language Title: Bacchanale: Satyr et Nymph
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1766
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/56739

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with roulette and perhaps aquatint or lavis
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 14.3 × 11.5 cm (5 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 22 × 15.9 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left corner of plate, printer's ink, etching, in artist's hand: frago del

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Cayeux, J. 'Catalogue des griffonis de Saint-Non', in "Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art français," Paris: 1963), no. 87

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz in honor of Eunice Williams
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
M26165
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), repr. as fig. 3 on p. 156

Verification Level

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