2006.249: Portrait of the Comte de Caylus
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.249
- People
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Attributed to Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
- Title
- Portrait of the Comte de Caylus
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1752
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/94054
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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Image: 17.2 × 12.3 cm (6 3/4 × 4 13/16 in.)
Plate: 18.9 × 14 cm (7 7/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 28.2 × 21.3 cm (11 1/8 × 8 3/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower third of image, at center, printer's ink, engraved, French: PH . CL . A . DE THUBIERES / COMTE DE CAYLUS .
- inscription: 1752, bottom center, printer's ink, engraved, French: Dessine' par Cochin les fils 1752
- collector's mark: verso, lower center, ink, stamped, signed: A F D in an oval
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, handwritten: 11312
- inscription: verso, center, graphite, handwritten: 53
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Ambroise Firmin Didot, Paris (119), Collector, Paris auction: 16 April - 12 May 1877
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.249
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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