2018.212: Humiliation of Vitellius
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2018.212
- People
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Pierre Chenu, French (1730 - c. 1795)
After Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1724 - 1780 Paris)
- Title
- Humiliation of Vitellius
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Le spectacle de l'historie romanie, depuis la foundation de Rome, jusqu'à la prise de Constantinople par Mahomet II, l'an de Jesus-Christ 1453, plate 47
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/362414
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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image: 20.1 × 15.7 cm (7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
sheet: 28.8 × 21.4 cm (11 5/16 × 8 7/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate: [upper left:] Page 160.; [lower left:] G. de St. Aubin del.; [lower right:] P. Chenu Sculp.; [lower center:] Vitellius couvert d'opprobre est conduit au ƒupplice.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Librairie Maxime Moorthamers, Villeurbanne], sold; to Francesco Buccella, Boston, by 2018, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Francesco Buccella, Harvard College Class of 2013, in honor of Alvin L. Clark, Jr.
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.212
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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