- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- R7923
- People
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François-Robert Ingouf, French (1747 - 1812)
After Jean-Jacques-François Lebarbier, French (Rouen 1738 - 1826 Paris)
- Title
- Canadians Weeping over the Tomb of their Child
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Un Canadien et sa femme pleurant sur le tombeau de leur enfant
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1786
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/238622
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Image: 46.2 × 36.3 cm (18 3/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 54.5 × 40.2 cm (21 7/16 × 15 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: Peint par M. leBarbier l'aîné Peintre du Roy. 1781.
- inscription: lower center, in plate: Imprimé par Sampier.
- inscription: lower right, in plate: Gravé par Ingouf le Jeune 1786.
- inscription: lower right, graphite: 700
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: 289/289
- inscription: verso, top right, graphite: illegible text
- Provenance
- John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- IFF, vol. XI, no. 169, p. 592; Le Blanc 7, P&B. 8
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
- Object Number
- R7923
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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William McAllister Johnson, The Rise and Fall of the Fine Art Print in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2016), repr. as fig. 76 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp 92-93, repr. p. 93 as fig. 3
- Exhibition History
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