Joseph Vien

in or after 1790

Simon Charles Miger

Artist, French, 1736 - 1820

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 37.6 x 25.5 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.9 x 33.4 cm (18 7/16 x 13 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.22.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 57, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1880

  • Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Peint par Mme. Guiard, Ptre. du Roi, 1er. Ptre. de Mesdames.; lower right in plate: Grave par S.C. Miger, Graveur du Roi.; below portrait, across bottom in plate: JOSEPH VIEN , PREMIER PEINTRE DU ROI / Ce Portrait d'un homme celebre, sous ... Devoue Serviteur S.C. Miger.; by later hand, across bottom verso in graphite: 1er Epr. avec le nom sur le bord de la tablette at avant tout la tete changee 205

Wikidata ID

Q75118199

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