The Seamstresses | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: R4548
People: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, French (Abbeville 1731 - 1797 Abbeville)
After Guido Reni, Italian (Bologna 1575 - 1642 Bologna)
Title: The Seamstresses
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Les couseuses
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/239886

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Engraving
Dimensions: Image: 39.5 × 54.6 cm (15 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 44.6 × 55.6 cm (17 9/16 × 21 7/8 in.)

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: later state
Standard Reference Number: Le Bl. 43, And. 3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number: R4548
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. 114 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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R4548: The Seamstresses