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Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Charles-Dominique Eisen

Pygmalion’s Dream of Galatea

1775

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Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt, Charles-Dominique Eisen

Pygmalion’s Dream of Galatea

1775

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 195 × 122 mm. (7 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.) Image: 143 × 96 mm. (5 5/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.1918
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).

Signed: One

Inscribed: RECTO: LL: "Ch. Eisen inv."; LWRC: "Aliamet Direcxit/ PIGMALION"; LR: "E. DeGhendt Sculp.; BC: "A Pairs chez Naudet Md. d'Estampes au louvre"; VERSO: LR: [Claghorn collector stamp]

Artist

Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt

French, born Flanders, 1738-1815
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Artist

Charles-Dominique Eisen

French, 1720-1778
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