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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.94
People
Etched by Louise de Montigny Le Daulceur, French (1745 - 1774)
Engraved by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1736 - 1807 Paris)
After Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)
Printing directed by Étienne Fessard, French (France 1714 - 1777 France)
Published by Chez Joullain, French
Title
Venus on the Water
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Venus sur les eaux
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1757
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/363241

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and engraving on off-white antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
23.5 × 23.3 cm (9 1/4 × 9 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, graphite, erased: [illegible text]
  • inscription: below image, in plate: [lower left:] Fessard direx. [lower center:] Venus sur les Eaux / Gravé de même grandeur d'après le dessein Original d'Edme Bouchardon Sculptr du Roi apartenant à M.r le Comte / de Caylus à l'eau forte par L.L.D. et terminé au burin par Aug. de S.t Aubin, 1757. [lower right:] Louis LeD. Sculp [lower right, below center inscription:] A Paris chés Joullain Quay de la / Megis serie à la Ville de Rome.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[James Bergquist, Newton Centre], sold; to Edouard Kopp, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF vol. 13, p. 495, no. 20; LeBlanc 1

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edouard Kopp in honor of Elizabeth Rudy and Kristel Smentek
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.94
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 02/28/2022

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