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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24435
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian (Venice, Italy 1696 - 1770 Madrid, Spain)
Title
Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Festin d'Antoine et de Cléopâtre
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/179067

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 10.6 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
Plate: 16.3 × 11.4 cm (6 7/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 24.4 × 18.1 cm (9 5/8 × 7 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin, center, graphite, handwritten: paraphe of the Parisian dealer Prouté
  • watermark: left edge, paper: partial capital Roman letters, illegible

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. IX, no. 11, p. 287; Baudicour, vol. I, no. 23, p. 169; Wildenstein, 12

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David Leventhal in honor of Eunice Williams and Marjorie B. Cohn
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
M24435
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), pp. 132 - 133, cat. 51, repr. on p. 133 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 98, p. 166 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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