2015.157: Young Woman with a Rose

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2015.157

People

Gilles Demarteau, French (Liège 1722 - 1776)
After François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)

Title

Young Woman with a Rose

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1776-1777

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/354320

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Crayon manner engraving printed in blue, red, and black on beige antique laid paper

Technique

Crayon manner print

Dimensions

Image: 25.6 × 19 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 31 × 22.3 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: left, below image: F. Boucher del
• inscription: right, below image: Demarteau sculp.
• inscription: center, below image: A Paris chés Demarteau et Pensionnaire du Roi, rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche. N°. 563

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number

IFF, vol. VI, p. 483, no. 563

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints

Accession Year

2015

Object Number

2015.157

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue des estampes gravées au crayon d’après différens maîtres, qui se vendent à Paris chés Demarteau, graveur du Roi, auct. cat. (Paris, 1788), no. 563 [reference citation]
• Victor Carlson and John Ittmann, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking, 1715-1814, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1984), cat. no. 74 [not Harvard impression]
• 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. 90, cat. no. 38 [not Harvard impression]
• Review of Colour Prints in Eighteenth-century France, Print Quarterly (London, September 2004), vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 338-339, p. 339 [not Harvard impression]
• Graphik-Anthologie, auct. cat., Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler (Frankfurt, 2015), p. 36, repr. p. 37

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2017 - 02/08/2018

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