Antoine Carrée and Benoît-Louis Prévost
Jacobus Franciscus Chereau (Portrait of Jean-François Chereau)
1780
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- Artist: Antoine Carrée
- Artist: Benoît-Louis Prévost
Jacobus Franciscus Chereau (Portrait of Jean-François Chereau)
1780
Physical Qualities
Wash-manner engraving printed in gray and black, Sheet: 310 × 250 mm. (12 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Plate: 290 × 230 mm. (11 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3734
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 2
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at lower left: "Delineabat Amiens B.L. Prevost Sacr. Coes. Maj Scalptor"; in plate, at bottom left: "Aubert Scripsit"; in plate, at lower right: "Ant. Caree Sculpt. 1780."; in plate, at bottom right: "Gayant le jeune Impri"; in plate, at lower center: "JACOBUS FRANCISCUS CHEREAU / Francisci et Jacobi Chereau e[?]orum Scalptorum e[?] Patre et Matre Nepos / ...Ingenuas didieisse fideliter Artes / Ovi"; at bottom center, in graphite: "123"; at bottom right, in graphite: "3112 [in diamond]" Verso: at bottom right, in graphite: "3.00"; at upper left: "RN"; at upper right: "786"
Markings: CM: verso, at lower left: Claghorn stamp
