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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G691
People
Laurent Cars, French (Lyon 1699 - 1771 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title
Venetian Festivals
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Fêtes Vénitiennes
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1732
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/275457

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 43.5 × 34.5 cm (17 1/8 × 13 9/16 in.)
Plate: 50 × 37 cm (19 11/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 52.5 × 39.7 cm (20 11/16 × 15 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
v
Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. III, no. 30, p. 473; Le Blanc 91; D-V. 6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G691
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Fried, Manet's Modernism; or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1996), p. 47, fig. 24

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