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print
Object Type
print
Museum number
1869,0508.2
Description
Portrait of King Louis XV; half-length; turned to right after Nicholas Blakey after a sculpture by Lemoyne the Younger. 1739 Colour mezzotint; state before additional blue plate.
Producer name
Print made by:
Jakob Christoph Le Blon
After:
Nicholas Blakey
(?)
After:
Jean Baptiste Lemoyne
(?)
School/style
German
Production date
1739
Materials
paper
Technique
colour
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
405 millimetres
Width:
335 millimetres
Curator's comments
See also: F. Rodari (ed): 'Anatomie de la Couleur; L'invention de l'estampe en couleurs', Bibliothèque nationale de France/ Musée Olympique Lausanne, 1996, cat.61 and: Margaret M Grasselli (ed): 'Colourful Impressions; The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France', National Gallery of Art Washington, 2003-4, cat 1. Graselli follows Rodari in describing the print as being based on a design by Nicholas Blakey. Rodari mentions a proof bearing Blakey's name, noting that the latter worked in Le Blon's studio in the late 1730s although this is not recorded elsewhere. Grasselli assumes that Blakey would have followed a sculpture of Louis XV by Le Moyne.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(40)
(Dutch and Flemish)
Singer 1901 / Jakob Christoffel Le Blon
(40)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700
(37.III)
(Le Blon)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Louis XV, King of France and Navarre
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1869
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1869,0508.2