2016.11: Montesquieu
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2016.11
- People
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Jean Baptiste de Grateloup, French (1735 - 1817)
After Jacques-Antoine Dassier, Swiss (Geneva 1715-1759 Copenhagen)
- Title
- Montesquieu
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1768
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/354741
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint
- Technique
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
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plate: 11 × 7.4 cm (4 5/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
sheet: 15.2 × 11.6 cm (6 × 4 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, below image, center: MONTESQVIEV.
- inscription: in plate, below image, right: J. B. Grateloup
- inscription: in plate, below image, left: Dassier I.
- inscription: sheet, lower center, graphite: F.7
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: F. 470
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
- IFF, vol. X, cat. no. 6, p. 458; Faucheux 7
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
- Accession Year
- 2016
- Object Number
- 2016.11
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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