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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G4089
People
Johann Georg Wille, German (Königsberg in Bayern, Germany 1715 - 1808 Paris, France)
After Gerhard Dou, Dutch (1613 - 1675)
Title
The Reader
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Liseuse
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1762
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/278374

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 33.1 × 26.9 cm (13 1/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Plate: 39.6 × 28.4 cm (15 9/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 41 × 29.5 cm (16 1/8 × 11 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
ii
Standard Reference Number
Le Bl. 62

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G4089
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. 93 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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