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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.207
People
Augustin de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1736 - 1807 Paris)
Title
The Last Hour of Baroness Rebecque
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Dernier heure de la Baronne de Rebecque
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1780
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/364466

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and engraving on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
plate: 26.4 × 21.3 cm (10 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 42.8 × 31.2 cm (16 7/8 × 12 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, around top of roundel: Dernier Heure de LA BARONNE DE REBECQUE. Morte à 36 Ans
  • inscription: in plate, around bottom of roundel: Sa vertu, sa raison, son heureux caractère, / Jamais un seul instant ne se sont démentis: / Hélas! faut-il pleurer une Amie aussi chere / Au moment où ces Dons étoient si bien sentis?
  • collector's mark: below plate mark, blind stamp: DE GONCOURT. [Edmond and Jules de Goncourt; Lugt 1089]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 438 / 741[?]
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: B. 232
  • collector's mark: verso, brown ink: JM [Julius Model; Lugt 1488a]
  • watermark: crown above a circle

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (Lugt 1089), sold [through their sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, commissaire-priseur Duchese, April 26-28, 1897, lot 468]; to Danlos. Julius Model (Lugt 1488a), sold [through C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 13-15, 1929, lot 741]. [N. G. Stogdon, New York], sold; to Victor Carlson, 1988, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Bocher 232

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Victor I. Carlson
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.207
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gravures du XVIIIe Siècle, Pièces imprimées en noir & en couleur, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, April 26-28, 1897), p. 44, lot 438
  • Victor Carlson and John Ittmann, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking, 1715-1814, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1984), pp. 224-225, cat. no. 75 [related bibliography, not Harvard impression]

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