Self-Portrait (with Cows) | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G395
People: Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, French (Lyon 1736 - 1810 Lyon)
Title: Self-Portrait (with Cows)
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Portrait de Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1796
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/276224

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching printed on chine collé, on off-white wove paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

Image: 29 × 23 cm (11 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Plate: 37.7 × 29.5 cm (14 13/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 58 × 41.1 cm (22 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

blind stamp: on mount: ND Cotton Boston 13 Tremont Row [in circle]

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: viii/viii
Standard Reference Number: IFF, vol. III, no. 102, p. 110; Perez, no. 102, p. 224

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number: G395
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/10/2023 - 02/05/2024

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