2017.120.58: The Children of Bacchus
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.120.58
- People
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Étienne Fessard, French (France 1714 - 1777 France)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- The Children of Bacchus
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Les enfants de Bacchus / Liberi Bacchi
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359115
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
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sheet: 47 × 62.5 cm (18 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.)
plate: 35.4 × 43.4 cm (13 15/16 × 17 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: Watteau pinx.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: Fessard.Sculp.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: LES ENFANTS DE BACCHUS. / Gravés d'après le Tableau original de Watteau haut d'un pied / 10 pouces sur 2. peids 3. pouces de large. // LIBERI BACCHI / Sculpta juxta exemplar a Watteavo depictumujus altitudo / 1 pedem cum 10 uncüs et latitudo 2 pedes cum 3 uncüs continet.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: Ce Tableau apartient a Mr. Morel Banquier a Paris / 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
- ii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 221
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.120.58
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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