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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.467
People
Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld, French (Carpentras 1743 - 1813 Lyon)
After Jacques-Louis David, French (Paris 1748 - 1825 Brussels)
After Jacques Callot, French (Nancy 1592 - 1635 Nancy)
After David Teniers II, Flemish (Antwerp 1610 - 1690 Brussels)
After Salvator Rosa, Italian (Arenella, Naples 1615 - 1673 Rome)
Title
Trompe l'Oeil with Prints and a Butterfly
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1766
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/333446

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, brown wash, and watercolor on cream antique laid paper, adhered to a decorative paper edge
Dimensions
with decorative paper edge: 35.7 x 44.2 cm (14 1/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
without decorative paper edge: 27.4 x 35.7 cm (10 13/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: bottom center, black ink: plume de jpx Bidauld / 1766
  • inscription: black ink, counter-clockwise from top left, in depicted prints: David f. / j. callot in & fecit. / cum privilegio Regi / tenier invenit et fecit / Salvator rosa in / 12
  • inscription: bottom right, brown ink: f."
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sale, New York, Christie's, 26 October 2001, lot 423. Sale, New York, Christie's, 23 January, 2002, lot 90, sold; to Charles Haar and Suzanne Keller Haar, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010, inv. no. 2010.467

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Haar and Suzanne Keller Haar
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.467
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S425A (Small Niche) The Art of Deceit: Looking at French Trompe L'Oeil, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/2010 - 01/08/2011

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