2017.120.30: Blindman's Buff
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.120.30
- People
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Etienne Brion, French (born 1729)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- Blindman's Buff
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Le colin maillard / Explorator Andabata
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1730
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359087
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
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sheet: 47 × 62.5 cm (18 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.)
plate: 39.1 × 44 cm (15 3/8 × 17 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: A. Watteau pinxit
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: E. Brion Sculp
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: LE COLIN MAILLARD / Gravé d'Apres le Tableau original Peint par Watteau haut de / 2.pieds sur 1. pied 7. pouces de large. // EXPLORATOR ANDABATA / Scalptus juxtà Exemplar à Watteavo depictum cujus altitudo pedem 2 et / latitudo pedem 1. cum 7. uncüs continet.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. de Jullienne.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: Avec Privilege du Roy.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- 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
- State
- after ii?
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 212
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.120.30
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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