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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M26166
People
Jean-Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, French (Paris 1727 - 1791 Paris)
After Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Satyr Carrying a Nymph on His Back and Following A Youth, a Frieze Below
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Griffonis d'apres Fragonard
Original Language Title: Femme chevauchant un satyr conduit par un jeune homme. fragment de frise
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1767
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/57220

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with roulette and perhaps aquatint or lavis
Technique
Etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Plate: 22.1 × 17.6 cm (8 11/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.7 × 24.8 cm (9 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: SN [monogram]
  • inscription: lower margin of plate area, printing ink, etching, signed, in artist's hand: frago del SN Sc
  • watermark: edge of sheet: fragmentary letters

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Cayeux, J. 'Catalogue des griffonis de Saint-Non', in "Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art français," Paris: 1963), no. 61 b, c

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz in honor of Eunice Williams
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
M26166
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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