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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3821
People
Nicolas Henri Tardieu, French (Paris 1674 - 1749 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title
The Embarkation for Cythera
Other Titles
Original Language Title: L'embarquement pour Cythère
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279009

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
55.4 x 75.1 cm (21 13/16 x 29 9/16 in.)

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Le Bl. 83, D.-V. 110

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3821
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Fried, Manet's Modernism; or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1996), p. 475, fig. 189

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