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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R3988
People
Edme Jeaurat, French (1688/72? - 1738)
After Charles de La Fosse, French (Paris 1636 - 1716 Paris)
Title
Acis and Galatea
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Acis et Galathée
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1722
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/238385

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 23.9 × 18.8 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 27.5 × 19.8 cm (10 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: JWR:"painting at Madrid"
    [transcribed from the original mount]:"Charles de la Fosse, b. Paris 1640, d. 1716.; Painted hist. and portr.; A distinguished pupil of Le Brun"

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. XII, no. 73, p. 128

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R3988
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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