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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M9881
People
A. Claude Philippe de Thubières comte de Caylus, French (Paris 1692 - 1765 Paris)
Nicolas Le Sueur, French (Paris 1691 - 1764 Paris)
After Giuseppe Cesari (called Cavaliere d'Arpino), Italian (Arpino, Italy 1568 - 1640 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Fall of Phaeton
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Chute de Phaëton
Series/Book Title: Recueil Crozat
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1729-1742
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/265081

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and chiaroscuro woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 41.3 × 26.6 cm (16 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Horace M. Swope, St. Louis and New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. IV, no. 227, p. 88; LeBlanc 24

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Horace M. Swope, Class of 1905
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
M9881
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Florian Rodari, Anatomie de la couleur: l’invention de l’estampe en couleurs, exh. cat., Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Musée Olympique Lausanne (Paris, 1996), cat. 34, p. 40 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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