Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
Plate 6 from the series “First Suite of Soldiers”
1754-1770
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Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
Plate 6 from the series “First Suite of Soldiers”
1754-1770
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 136 x 100 mm. (5 3/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Plate: 120 x 88 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Image: 111 x 78 mm. (4 3/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.3348
Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Artists and Amateurs: Etching in the Eighteenth Century France," October 1, 2013- January 5, 2014.
Inscribed: Recto: at upper right, in plate: "No. 6"; Verso: at lower left, in graphite: "1477/14 [in diamond]"; at lower right, in graphite: "Gerstauker [indecipherable]"; at lower right, in graphite: "O.2"
Markings: CM: Claghorn
Artist
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg
1739–1811
French, active in England, 1740-1812
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