Nina de Villard (Mme. Hector de Callias)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G9091
People: Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin, French (1822 - 1902)
Title: Nina de Villard (Mme. Hector de Callias)
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1879
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/93031

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Drypoint with subtle monotype wiping

Technique

Drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 23.5 x 15.3 cm (9 1/4 x 6 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: M. Desboutin
stamp: lower edge, to right, purplish black ink, stamped: MICHAEL WENTWORTH [collector's stamp]
inscription: lower margin, below right corner of plate, brown ink, hand written, French, signed, in artist's hand: a mon bon [?]ami [----?----] / M. Desboutin

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Michael Wentworth, Collector. Wentworth was a scholar of James J. Tissot and French and English 19th c. printmaking more generally. He was Art Curator at the Boston Athenaeum at the time of his death in 2002, but he had sold many of the prints in his personal collection prior to his death.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: C.-J. 31

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Accession Year: 2003
Object Number: G9091
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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