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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.96
People
Nicolas Colibert, French (1750 - 1806)
Title
Mars Rewarding Valor
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Mars Récompense la Valeur
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1796
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/355763

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Color-printed stipple engraving
Technique
Stipple
Dimensions
Image: 18.2 × 28.5 cm (7 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Plate: 29.6 × 37 cm (11 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.5 × 3.8 cm (12 × 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 3275 a [underlined twice] 2B11 Lollp [?] / 13278
  • inscription: lower center, below image, in plate: MARS RÉCOMPENSE LA VALEUR.
  • inscription: lower center, below image, in plate: Du Dieu de la valeur fiers et nobles Enfants; / Qui joignez la sagesse à la fougue guerriére: / Loit pacificeateur, soil hardis conquérants, / Vous courez des Héros, la brillante carrière; / Recevez done le prix, des vertus, des talents.
  • inscription: lower center, below image, in plate: Plein de glorie et d'amour, maitre du champ d'honneur. / Chacun des Combattants rend hommage à sa belle: Manque t-il a son sort, la conquête d'un coeur? / Léclat des ses lauriers, sourmettra la cruelle, / De la chase Cypris, Mars fut l'heureuse Vainqueur.
  • inscription: lower right, in plate, below image: Colibert sculp.
  • inscription: lower left, in plate, below image: Colibert inv.

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Le Blanc, col. I, p. 35, no. 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.96
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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