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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R3685
People
Jean Joseph Balechou, French (Avignon, France 1719 - 1764 Avignon, France)
After Claude-Joseph Vernet, French (Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Title
Calm
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Calme
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1755
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/240317

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 43.3 × 53.4 cm (17 1/16 × 21 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: JWR:"The Calm; Vernet pxt. JJ Balichon sc; no 190 7.50"

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. I, no. 53, p. 438; LeB.85

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R3685
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 1 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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