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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.212
People
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
print
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
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
  • 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
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