Esquisse d’un tombeau (Sketch for a Tomb)

1766

François-Philippe Charpentier

Artist, French, 1734 - 1817

Pierre-François Basan

Publisher, French, 1723 - 1797

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.6 × 18.9 cm (11 1/4 × 7 7/16 in.)
    plate: 30.5 × 20 cm (12 × 7 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 43 × 29.8 cm (16 15/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.91.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1700): no. 36, State undesc. ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, undesc.

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: no. 47

1930

  • IFF (1700): no. 36, undesc ii/ii

1978

  • Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'Oeuvre grave de Francois Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978: no. 466

Inscriptions

In plate, in image, at lower left: Franciscus Boucher Primus Pictor Regius invenit; in plate, in image, at lower right: Franciscus Philippus Charpentier Bleseas sculpsit; in plate, below image at center: ESQUISSE D'UN TOMBEAU / A Paris chez Basan; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 34; by later hand, lower left verso in brown ink: 25-

Watermarks

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