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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R7283
People
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French (Metz 1734 - 1781 Saint-Denis-du-Port)
Title
The Washerwomen
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les laveuses
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1771
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/238328

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and lift ground aquatint on off-white laid paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Image: 33 × 23 cm (13 × 9 1/16 in.)
Plate: 38.2 × 26.5 cm (15 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 46 × 32.2 cm (18 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.)

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol XIV, no. 161, p. 476; LeBlanc 157; Andresen 9; Hédou 148

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R7283
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 44, p. 81 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/09/2023 - 07/10/2023

Verification Level

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