Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
R7289
People
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French (Metz 1734 - 1781 Saint-Denis-du-Port)
Title
The Fishermen
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les pêcheurs
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1771
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/237692

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and lift ground aquatint on off-white laid paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Image: 32.3 × 23.3 cm (12 11/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Plate: 38 × 30.5 cm (14 15/16 × 12 in.)
Sheet: 42.4 × 32.4 cm (16 11/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in image: le Prince 1771 -
  • inscription: center, below image: les Pêcheurs, c [illeg. graphite]
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: 45

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
only state
Standard Reference Number
Hédou, no. 163, p. 169

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R7289
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Michael Cole, ed., The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2006), repr. as fig. 61 on p.82 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 50, p. 87 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/05/2017 - 04/19/2017

Verification Level

This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu