Calm | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R3685
People: Jean Joseph Balechou, French (Avignon, France 1719 - 1764 Avignon, France)
After Claude-Joseph Vernet, French (Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Title: Calm
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Le Calme
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1755
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/240317

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 43.3 × 53.4 cm (17 1/16 × 21 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: JWR:"The Calm; Vernet pxt. JJ Balichon sc; no 190 7.50"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: IFF, vol. I, no. 53, p. 438; LeB.85

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number: R3685
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

William McAllister Johnson, The Rise and Fall of the Fine Art Print in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2016), repr. as fig. 1 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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R3685: Calm