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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.161
People
Jean Ouvrier, French (1725 - 1784)
After Johann Eleazar Schenau, German (Gross-Schenau, Saxony 1737 - 1806)
Title
The Little Glutton
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Petit Glouton
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1772
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354324

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving with etching
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Image: 43.2 × 33.3 cm (17 × 13 1/8 in.)
Plate: 49.3 × 36.4 cm (19 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 62.9 × 45.6 cm (24 3/4 × 17 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: right, bottom, in graphite: 206/40
  • inscription: left, below image, in plate: J.E. Schenau Pinxt
  • inscription: right, below image, in plate: J. Ouvrier Sculp.
  • inscription: below image, in plate: LE PETIT GLOUTON. / Gravé d'aprés le Tableau Original d'un pied cinq pouces de hauteur sur un pied deux pouces de largeur. / Peint par J.E. Schenau premier Peintre de S. A. S. Er. de Saxe. / A Paris chez l'Auteur Place Maubert, chez Mr. Bellot M.d Bonnetier au Soleil d'or.

Provenance

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

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.161
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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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