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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21315.20
People
Jean François Janinet, French (1752 - 1814)
Title
The People Force the Doors of the Abbaye St.-Germain Prison and Free the Prisonners (30 June 1789)
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Gravures Historiques des principaux événements depuis l'ouverture des Etats
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1789
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/264970

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching, lift ground aquatint and roulette with watercolor on off-white laid paper
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
13 x 9 cm (5 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
BNIFF ?

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Patrice Higonnet
Accession Year
1990
Object Number
M21315.20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Philippe de Carbonnières and Daniel Jouteux, Les Gravures historiques de Janinet. Collections du musée Carnavalet, Paris-Musées (Paris, France, 2011), pp. 49-51; ill. p. 51

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