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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.121
People
Charles-Joseph Natoire, French (Nîmes 1700 - 1777 Castel Gandolfo)
Benoît Audran the Younger, French (Paris 1700 - 1772 Paris)
Title
Summer
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Jeu d'enfants: l'este
Series/Book Title: Four Seasons
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356371

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
image: 22.9 × 24.5 cm (9 × 9 5/8 in.)
plate: 26.5 × 25.9 cm (10 7/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
sheet: 31.5 × 47.2 cm (12 3/8 × 18 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, below image: Inventé peint et grave a l'eau forte par C. Natoire.
  • inscription: lower right, below image: Termine par B. Audran.
  • inscription: lower right, in plate, signed: C. Natoire. ƒ
  • inscription: in plate, below image:
    ÆSTAS L'ESTE. / Dedié a Monsigneur Philibert Orry Controlleur General des finances. / par son très humble & très obeissant serviteur C. Natoire. P.R. / a Paris chez Huquier vis a vis le grand Chatelet aux armes d'Angleterre avec privilege du Roy.
  • watermark: At center sheet: TID with tower, Heawood 241a. Papermaker Dupuy

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gabriel Huquier, the elder (1695-1772). [Christopher Mendez Old Master Prints, London], sold; to [Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas, TX, January 2008], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Robert-Dumesnil Natoire 5; BN Inventaire; Audran 29

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.121
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 8 on p. 27 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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