In Expectation of Pleasure | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G2308
People: Louis Simon Lempereur, French (1728 - 1808)
After Annibale Carracci, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1560 - 1609 Rome, Italy)
Title: In Expectation of Pleasure
Other Titles: Original Language Title: L'attente du plaisir
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/274613

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Engraving
Dimensions: Image: 35.5 × 50 cm (14 × 19 11/16 in.)
Plate: 42.5 × 53.2 cm (16 3/4 × 20 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 52.2 × 67.7 cm (20 9/16 × 26 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Francis Calley, Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: LeBlanc 43; Andresen 7

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number: G2308
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. 124 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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G2308: In Expectation of Pleasure