Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 358 × 249 mm. (14 1/8 × 9 13/16 in.)
Plate: 349 × 241 mm. (13 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
Image: 333 × 227 mm. (13 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau...Gravé d'Après ses Tableaux & Dessins Originaux, by Jean de Jullienne, frontispiece vol. 1.
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.3346
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c); W.E. Drugulin, Leipzig (Lugt 2612); A. Ritter van Franck, Vienna (Lugt 946).
Carlson, Victor I., & John W. Ittmann, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814', Nov. 10, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985, no. 13b p. 74, ill. p. 76.; circulated to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Jean-Richard, Pierrette, L'ouevre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1978, no. 33, ill. Dacier, Emile and Albert Vuaflart, Jean de Jullienne et Les Graveurs de Watteau au XVIII.e Siècle, Paris: Société pour l'Etude de la Gravure Française, 1922-1929, 1:iv, fig. 1, repr.3: cat. no. 318.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: In pl., LL in image, on portfolio: 'Watteau' & 'Boucher'; LL in pl., below image: 'Watteau pinx.'; LR in pl.: 'Boucher Sculp.'; etched cartouche BC in pl. with 4 lines of verse by C. Moraine; BRC (graphite, in diamond): '3073'. VERSO: TLC under tape: 'RC' underlined; TRC under tape: '77.0'; UL (graphite): 'K'; UC (graphite): 'franck / 12 Ap. 820' (Lugt 946); LL (graphite): 'a' & below Claghorn stamp in red ink; LwrC (stamped in blue ink): 'W.D.' (Lugt 2612), & below (graphite): 'D[???].V.'; BLC: unidentified black stamp in circle: '[BF?]' & (graphite): 'très belle Ep.' & below (graphite): 'no'.
Markings: none - illegible
