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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G2584
People
Jean Massard, French (Bellême 1740 - 1822 Paris)
After Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French (Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)
Title
The Well-Loved Mother
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La mère bien aimée
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/278534

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving

Provenance

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

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iv (?)
Standard Reference Number
And. 10, Le Bl. 89

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G2584
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale…, exh. cat., De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Hérissant (Paris, 1785), no. 317 [not Harvard impression]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 10 on p. 19 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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