Antoine de Chésie | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2018.304
People: Louis-Jean Desprez, French (Auxerre 1743 - 1804 Stockholm)
Title: Antoine de Chésie
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Portrait d'Antoine de Chésie
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/362619

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching on blue laid paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

image: 19.8 × 14.8 cm (7 13/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
sheet: 23.5 × 16 cm (9 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: in plate, lower left: deprée del. et sculp.; verso, upper left, graphite: 888 [underlined]
watermark: crown surmounting a fleur-de-lys

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Martinez D., Paris], sold; to [Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Nashville, 2011], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: only state
Standard Reference Number: Wollin 1933 21; Baudicour 23; IFF 22

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year: 2018
Object Number: 2018.304
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 53, p. 91 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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2018.304: Antoine de Chésie