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Jean Jacques Lagrenée II

Ornamental Frieze, 1784-1785

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series Title

Recueil de différentes compositions (Collection of Different Compositions)

Medium

etching, aquatint, and lift-ground aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 12.5 × 49.8 cm (4 15/16 × 19 5/8 in.)

sheet: 43.1 × 57.5 cm (16 15/16 × 22 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Baudicour, no. undesc.

Accession Number

2018.91.40

Artists / Makers

Jean Jacques Lagrenée II (artist) French, 1739 - 1821

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Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1859: de Baudicour, Prosper. Le peintre-graveur français continué, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française nés dans le XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1861, no. undesc.

1930: IFF (1700): no.58

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 162, fig. 9.

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