2019.208: Title Page
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2019.208
- People
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Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, French (Paris 1721 - 1786 Paris)
- Title
- Title Page
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Papilloneries Humaines
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1750
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/364467
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on off-white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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plate: 19 × 28.8 cm (7 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)
sheet: 26.8 × 39.6 cm (10 9/16 × 15 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: center, in plate: PREMIER ESSAI / DE / PAPILLONERIES HUMAINES / Par Saint Aubin l'Ainé
- inscription: top, upside down, black ink: ici le Bas du Cartouche
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mrs. Lautier. [Unknown French dealer], sold; to [Paul Prouté, Paris, 1992], sold; to Victor Carlson, 1993, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- i/ii
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Victor I. Carlson
- Accession Year
- 2019
- Object Number
- 2019.208
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Victor Carlson and John Ittmann, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking, 1715-1814, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1984), p. 123, cat. no. 35 [related bibliography]
Verification Level
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