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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.249
People
Attributed to Charles-Nicolas Cochin le jeune, French (Paris 1715 - 1790 Paris)
Title
Portrait of the Comte de Caylus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1752
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/94054

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
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
  • 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
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