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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.10
People
Louis-Jean Desprez, French (Auxerre 1743 - 1804 Stockholm)
Title
Jean Rodolphe Perronet
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1772-1776
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354740

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with engraving
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 21.1 × 17 cm (8 5/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: around top of roundel: JEAN RODOLPHE PERRONET
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: j. l. desprée del et scul.
  • inscription: on former backing, graphite: M765

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Dealer, Paris], sold; to [Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA, circa 2010], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Baudicour 22; Wollin 20

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.10
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Prosper de Baudicour, Le Peintre-graveur français continué, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française nés dans le XVIIIe siècle, Mme Bouchard-Huzard (Paris, 1859-1861), pp. 273-4, cat. no. 22 [reference citation]
  • Nils Gustaf Wollin, Gravures originales de Desprez ou exécutées d'après dessins, J. Kroon (Malmö, 1933), pp. 18, 25, no. 21 [not Harvard impression]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), pp. 89, 212 [reference citation]

Verification Level

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