- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- G2582
- People
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Jean Massard, French (Bellême 1740 - 1822 Paris)
After Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
- Title
- The Most Beautiful of Mothers
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: La plus belle des mères
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/278532
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Image: 44 × 31.9 cm (17 5/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
Plate: 53 × 36 cm (20 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 54.5 × 38.1 cm (21 7/16 × 15 in.)
- Provenance
- Francis Calley, Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- iv (?)
- Standard Reference Number
- Andresen 3; LeBlanc 4
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G2582
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale…, exh. cat., De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Hérissant (Paris, 1785), no. 320 [not Harvard impression]
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