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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2013.26
People
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, French (Paris 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Title
The Chinese Masquerade
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Mascarade Chinoise
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1735
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/348736

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 26.7 × 42.4 cm (10 1/2 × 16 11/16 in.)
Plate: 30.8 × 43 cm (12 1/8 × 16 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 32.8 × 46.8 cm (12 15/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on plate, l.l.: Pierre sculp.
  • inscription: below image: Mascarade Chinoise faite a Rome le Carneval de l'annee M.D. CC XXXV. Par Mrs les Pensionaires du Roy de France en son Academie des arts / DEDIEE / a Son Excellence Mongr Le Duc de St. Aignan Pair de France Chevallier des Ordres du Roy et son Ambassadeur Extraordinaire a Rome.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin, Germany, by 2012], to; [Hill-Stone, Inc. Fine Prints & Drawings, New York, NY, 2012], sold to; Harvard Art Museums, 2013.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/i
Standard Reference Number
Baudicour 1, 27; Le Blanc 25; Portalis-Béraldi III, p. 310

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2013
Object Number
2013.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Selected Works XII, auct. cat. (Berlin, Germany, 2012), no. 30
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 61, p. 109 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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