Trompe l'Oeil: Old Prints, a Torn Envelope with Horn-rimmed Glasses, and a Housefly, 1763

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with brush and gray, red, and brown wash

Dimensions

sheet: 35 x 49.7 cm (13 3/4 x 19 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2009.31.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld (artist) French, 1745 - 1813

Various Artists (artist after)

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left: cum privilegio; upper right: 7 Berchem f.; lower center: Chapperon pinx; S. Bella; lower right: Guerineau excudit cum privilegio regio; lower right: SBella 1599; on envelope: Bidauld / delinavit and 1763 / Lugduni

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul