2016.95: When Marriage Sleeps, Love Awakens

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2016.95

People

Mauclerc, French (active in the 18th century)
After Jean Frédéric Schall, French (Strasbourg 1752 - 1825 Paris)

Title

When Marriage Sleeps, Love Awakens

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Quand l'Hymen dort, l'Amour veille

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1780

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/355762

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Color-printed stipple engraving

Technique

Stipple engraving

Dimensions

Image: 35 × 42.5 cm (13 3/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Plate: 39.4 × 46 cm (15 1/2 × 18 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 40.6 × 47.5 cm (16 × 18 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 10068
• inscription: lower left, in plate, below image: Challe Pinxt.
• inscription: lower right, in plate, below image: Maucler Sculpt.
• inscription: lower center, below image, in plate: Quand l'Hymen dort, l' Amour veille. / A Paris, Chez Vidal, Graveur, Rue de la Harpe, No. 181.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Kennedy Gallery, New York], sold; to [Donald A. Heald Rare Books, Prints & Maps], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund

Accession Year

2016

Object Number

2016.95

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ralph Nevill, French Prints of the Eighteenth Century, Macmillan and Co. (London, 1908), p. 121 [reference citation]
• André Girodie, Un Peintre de Fêtes Galantes: Jean-Frédéric Schall (Strasbourg 1752 - Paris 1825), A. & F. Kahn (Strasbourg, 1927), pp. 23-24 +42 + 71 [reference citation]

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