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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.88
People
Gilles Antoine Demarteau ( Liège 1750 - 1802 Paris)
After Jean-Baptiste Huet, French (Paris 1745 - 1811 Paris)
Title
Spring
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Printemps
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1785
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/355636

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and aquatint with mezzotint and stipple
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
sheet: 30.5 × 37.7 cm (12 × 14 13/16 in.)
plate: 29 × 36.4 cm (11 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: J. B. huet pinxit.
  • inscription: in plate, lower center: LE PRINTEMPS. / A Paris chez Demarteau graveur, Cloitre St. Benoit.
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: Demarteau sculp. 1785 / No. 632.
  • inscription: verso, top left, graphite: 292

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Piasa, Paris, September 29, 2005, lot 99]. Carlo Antonetto, Lugano, sold; to [PRPH Rare Books, New York, NY], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016..

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. VI, no. 45, p. 489

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.88
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 632 [reference citation]
  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 289-290, repr. p. 289 as fig. 3

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