- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2017.120.18
- People
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Michel-Guillaume Aubert, French (Paris c. 1704 - 1757 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- The Hunting Party
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Rendez-vous de chasse / Dictus Venationi Locus
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359075
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 47 × 62.5 cm (18 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.)
plate: 40.4 × 53.9 cm (15 7/8 × 21 1/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: A. Watteau pinxit.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: Aubert. Sculp.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: RENDEZ-VOUS DE CHASSE. / Gravé d'Après le Tableau original Peint par Watteau haut de 4. pieds, / sur 6. de large. // DICTUS VENATIONI LOCUS. / Scalptus juxta Exemplar à Watteavo depictum cujus altitudo 4 pedes, / latitudo 6 oequat.
- inscription: in plate lower margin, centered: Ce tableau est dans le Cabinet de Mr.Racine du Jongnoy / a Paris avec privilégé du Roy.
- Provenance
- Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, by 1884, by descent, sold [through Christie's, London, July 15, 2015, lot 172]; to private collection, United Kingdom, sold [through C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], to; Harvard Art Museums, 2017
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 213
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.120.18
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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