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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G256
People
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, French (Abbeville 1731 - 1797 Abbeville)
After Guido Reni, Italian (Bologna 1575 - 1642 Bologna)
Title
The Seamstresses
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les couseuses
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276430

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 39.7 × 54.5 cm (15 5/8 × 21 7/16 in.)
Plate: 44.6 × 55.6 cm (17 9/16 × 21 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 47 × 57.6 cm (18 1/2 × 22 11/16 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
proof before all letters
Standard Reference Number
LeBlanc 43; Andresen 3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G256
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William McAllister Johnson, The Rise and Fall of the Fine Art Print in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2016), repr. as fig. 114 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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