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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G397
People
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, French (Lyon 1736 - 1810 Lyon)
Title
Two Fathers of the Desert
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les Pères du désert
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1797
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276187

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed on chine collé, on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 43 × 30.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 in.)
Plate: 48.6 × 34.2 cm (19 1/8 × 13 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 57.5 × 41.8 cm (22 5/8 × 16 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • blind stamp: on mount: ND Cotton Boston 13 Tremont Row [in circle]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
vi/vi
Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. III, no. 103, p. 111; Perez, no. 103, p. 228

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G397
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/10/2023 - 02/05/2024

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