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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21939
People
Jean-Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, French (Paris 1727 - 1791 Paris)
After Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
After Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
Detail of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling Featuring God the Creator And a Prophet
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Fragments choisis dans les peintures et les tableaux ... de l'Italie
Original Language Title: Michel ange Chappelle Sistine à Rome
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1770
Places
Creation Place: Europe
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/266332

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Image: 18.8 × 13.1 cm (7 3/8 × 5 3/16 in.)
Plate: 20.3 × 14.4 cm (8 × 5 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.7 × 16.5 cm (8 15/16 × 6 1/2 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Cayeux, J. 'Catalogue des griffonis de Saint-Non', in "Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art français," Paris: 1963), no.157

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Drawing Department
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
M21939
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), repr. as fig. 1, under cat. 41, on p. 123 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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Verification Level

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