2017.120.78: The Enchanted Isle
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.120.78
- People
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Jacques Philippe Le Bas, French (Paris 1707 - 1783 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- The Enchanted Isle
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: L'Île enchantée / Insula Perjucunda
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359135
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
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plate: 39.5 × 50 cm (15 9/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
sheet: 47 × 62.5 cm (18 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: L'ILE ENCHANTÉE / Gravée d'après le Tableau original Peint par Watteau, / de la même grandeur de lestampe. // INSULA PERJUCUNDA / Salpta juxta exemplar ejusdem magnitudinus a Watteavo / depictum.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: Du Cabinet de Mr. Cartaud Architecte de feu / S. A. R. Monseigr. le Duc de Berry. / A Paris avec privilege
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
- iii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 264
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.120.78
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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