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Object Type
print
Museum number
1873,0809.1445
Title
Object:
Frère Blaise Feuillan
Series:
L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy
Series:
Recueil Jullienne
Description
Portrait of friar Blaise, doorkeeper at the abbey of Les Feuillans, whole-length, standing in front of a door and locking it. c.1715/35 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Benoît Audran II
After:
François de Troy
School/style
French
Production date
1715-1735
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
514 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
348 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Although the production detail states that the plate was executed after de Troy, the etching was included at the end of the first volume of 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau', published by Jullienne c.1735 (see 1838,0526.1.1 for comment). Dacier and Vuaflart suggest that the preparatory drawing for this etching could have been done by Watteau after a painting by François de Troy, who was a close friends of Jullienne.
Bibliographic references
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(12.III)
Dacier & Vuaflart 1921-29 / Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIe siècle
(117.II)
Firmin-Didot 1875-77 / Les graveurs de portraits en France catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l' École Française
(69)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
cleric
Associated names
Portrait of:
Frère Blaise de Sainte Marie Donat
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Jules Des Portes
Acquisition date
1873
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1873,0809.1445