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Object Type
Museum number: 1862,0712.130
Title: Object: Mr Necker
Description: Portrait of Jacques Necker, half-length, head turned to right; wig, unbuttonned jacket and lace tie; in oval frame, on a 'ledge', with tablet. 1784 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Augustin de Saint-Aubin; After: Joseph Siffred Duplessis; Published by: Augustin de Saint-Aubin
School/style
Production date: 1784
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 346 millimetres; Width: 247 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Advertised in 'Mercure de France', December 1784; shown at the Salon, 1785; Saint-Aubin engraved the same portrait twice again (in-4o and in-12o) in 1785 and 1789.
Bibliographic references: Bocher 1879 / Augustin de Saint-Aubin: catalogue raisonné (196.IV); De Vinck 1909-1967 / Collection De Vinck. Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe. Inventaire analytique. (1414); Firmin-Didot 1875-77 / Les graveurs de portraits en France catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l' École Française (2093)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1862
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1862,0712.130

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