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François-Philippe Charpentier after Jean-Honoré Fragonard, published by Pierre-François Basan

La Culbute (The Tumble), 1766

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Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 27.6 × 39.3 cm (10 7/8 × 15 1/2 in.)
plate: 30 × 41.7 cm (11 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.)

sheet: 34 × 47 cm (13 3/8 × 18 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 37, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1942.9.2312

Artists / Makers

François-Philippe Charpentier (artist) French, 1734 - 1817

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist after) French, 1732 - 1806

Pierre-François Basan (publisher) French, 1723 - 1797

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: frangonard inv.; in plate, below image, at center: LA CULBUTE / A Paris chés Basan; in plate, below image, at right: Charpentier Sculp; verso: in graphite, at lower left: F 397

Exhibition History

1988: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 11, as La Culbute (The Tumble).

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

Bibliography

1930: IFF (1700): no. 37, ii/ii

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 43, fig. 11.