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- Museum number
- 1850,0810.431
- Title
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Object: Qu'ay je fait assassins maudits...
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Series: Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux de la galerie de S. E. M. le Comte de Brühl
- Description
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A sick man trying to escape a group of physicians; some of them are carrying clysters and threatening him, while another on the left is washing his hands. 1727
Etching with some engraving
- Production date
- 1727
- Dimensions
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Height: 306 millimetres
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Width: 375 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In this state, plate 35 from 'Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux de la galerie de S. E. M. le Comte de Brühl', a set reproducing paintings from the collection of the Count of Brühl published in Dresden in 1754; originally plate 152 from 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau' (see 1838,0526.1.1 for comment on this set).
Advertised in 'Mercure', November 1727. The plate, etched by Caylus, was finished with additional burin work by Joullain.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0810.431