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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2010.596
People
Anne Allen, British (1749/50 - after 1808(?))
After Jean Baptiste Pillement, French (Lyon 1728 - 1808 Lyon)
Title
Chinese Arabesque with Tightrope Walker
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers Arabesque Chinois
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1795
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/337130

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2220, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Rococo and Neoclassicism in the Eighteenth Century
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Color etching printed à la poupée in black, gray, blue, green, brown, pink and olive green on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 19.5 × 14 cm (7 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 21 × 15.3 cm (8 1/4 × 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r. etched in plate: Anne allen S.
  • inscription: l.l. etched in plate: F. Pillement in.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. I, no. 3 p. 153

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2010
Object Number
2010.596
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries Publishers (Washington, D.C., 2003), p. 150-151, cat. no. 89 [not Harvard impression]

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/2015 - 05/05/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/16/2024 - 01/27/2025

Verification Level

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