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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R4364
People
Louis Surugue, French (Paris 1686 - 1762 Paris)
Loire
After Charles Le Brun, French (Paris 1619 - 1690 Paris)
Title
Different Nations of Europe
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les differentes nations de l'Europe
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1720
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/241340

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 31.6 × 25.9 cm (12 7/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Plate: 34.2 × 27 cm (13 7/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 37 × 29.1 cm (14 9/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: Les differentes Nations de l'Europe, / Peintes dans le grand Escalier du chateau de Versailles par Charles le / Brun premier peintre du Roy, et gravé par Louis Surugue en 1720. / A Paris chez Surugue Graveur, montagne s.te Genevieve atenant le College de Laon chez le Sr. Berault.
  • inscription: lower right, in plate : Loire Sculp. / Variæ Europæ Nationes, / Jn magnâ Versalliarum Castelli Porticu a Carlo le Brun Regiorum pictorum / Principe pictæ, sculptæ vero a Ludovico Surugue Parisiis anno 1720. / Les petits Tableaux Or.aux sont chez Mr. Delaunay Dir.tr des Medailles a Paris.
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: Alexis Loir [illeg. text]
  • inscription: lower center, graphite: [illegible text, cut off]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 4MW

Provenance

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R4364
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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