Landscape with a Cascade and Storm

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R4171
People: Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, French (Lyon 1736 - 1810 Lyon)
Title: Landscape with a Cascade and Storm
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Le bouleau arraché par l'orage
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1809
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/240062

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

Image: 26.7 × 37.5 cm (10 1/2 × 14 3/4 in.)
Plate: 32 × 42 cm (12 5/8 × 16 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 34 × 45 cm (13 3/8 × 17 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

(not assigned): This is the very last print made by Boissieu before his death on March 6, 1810

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

State: vii
Standard Reference Number: Perez, no. 140, p. 302

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number: R4171
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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