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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.160
People
Jean Ouvrier, French (1725 - 1784)
After Johann Eleazar Schenau, German (Gross-Schenau, Saxony 1737 - 1806)
Title
Faults Corrected by Humiliation
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les défauts corrigés par l'affront
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1770
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354323

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving with etching
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Image: 43.3 × 33.3 cm (17 1/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Plate: 49.4 × 35.8 cm (19 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 64 × 46.2 cm (25 3/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: left, below image, in plate: J.E. Schenau Pinx.
  • inscription: right, below image, in plate: J. Ouvrier, Sculp.
  • inscription: below image, in plate: LES DÉFAULTS CORRIGÉS PAR L'AFFRONT. / Grave d'aprés le Tableau Original d'un pied cinq pouces de hauteur sur un pied deux pouces de largeur. / Peint par J.E. Schenau Peintre de S. A. S. Er. de Saxe. / A paris chez l'Auteur Place Maubert chez md Bonnetier au soleil d'or
  • inscription: right, recto, in graphite [erased?]: 205/ [illeg. number]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Emanuel von Baeyer, London], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Le Blanc 9

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.160
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michel Huber and C. C. H. Rost, Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l'art, contenant une notice abrégée des principaux graveurs, et un catalogue raisonné de leurs meilleurs ouvrages; depuis le commencement de la gravure jusqué à nos jours: les Artistes rangés par ordre chronologique, Orell Füssli Verlag (Zurich, 1804), p. 197, no. 5 [reference citation]
  • Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil, Schenau (1737-1806): Monografie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgrafik von Johann Eleazar Zeißig, gen. Schenau, Michael Imhof Verlag (Dresden, 2018), pp. 536-537, no GA 187 [not Harvard impression]

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