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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G258
People
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, French (Abbeville 1731 - 1797 Abbeville)
After Joseph-Marie Vien, the Elder, French (Montpellier 1716 - 1809 Paris)
Title
The Offering to Venus
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Offrande à Vénus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276564

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 42.8 × 28.3 cm (16 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. II, no. 60, p. 231; M. 26, Le Bl. 19, And. 4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G258
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rochelle Ziskin, Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris, Brill Academic Publishers (Boston) (Boston, 2023), pp. 248, 250, repr. p. 250 as fig. 43

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