2020.40: The Dress of the Aristocrats
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2020.40
- People
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Giovanni David, Italian (Cabella Ligure 1743 - 1790 Genoa)
- Title
- The Dress of the Aristocrats
- Other Titles
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Series/Book Title: Divers Portraits
Original Language Title: Habits des Nobles - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1775
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/218141
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
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image: 21.5 × 15.7 cm (8 7/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
plate: 23.9 × 16.6 cm (9 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
sheet: 39 × 27.5 cm (15 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: right edge, reverse reading from how print is oriented: G B
- inscription: lower left, in plate: David. Gen. Inv. fecit.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: Habits des Nobles / Ils donnent tous leurs soins au bien de la Patrie. Bou.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein (cf. Lugt 2715a), sold; to [C. G. Boerner, New York and Dusseldorf], sold; to Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 1997; Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- LeBlanc 13; Newcombe Schleier and Grasso 12a
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mariot F. Solomon
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.40
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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