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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G131
People
Jean Joseph Balechou, French (Avignon, France 1719 - 1764 Avignon, France)
After Hyacinthe Rigaud, French (Perpignan 1659 - 1743 Paris)
Title
August III, King of Poland
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1750
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276117

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 73 × 51.8 cm (28 3/4 × 20 3/8 in.)

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii
Standard Reference Number
LeBlanc 66

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G131
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jennifer Germann, "'The Requisite Local Coloring:' Painting the Washington Family in London", American Art, Smithsonian Institution and The University of Chicago Press (Fall 2021), vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 26-37, pp. 29-30, repr. p. 30 as fig. 4
  • Dorothy Price, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gillroy-Ware, Sarah Lea, Rose Thompson, and Alayo Akinkugbe, Engtangled Pasts, 1768- Now: Art, Colonialism and Change, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2024), pp. 20-22, repr. p. 22 as fig. 10

Verification Level

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