print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: 1878,0511.1019
Title: Object: Le Soufleur
Description: Man wearing fur-trimmed coat and hat, sitting at a table and reading a book, in an interior with chemistry flasks and beaks on shelf. 1744 Etching with some engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Bernard Lépicié; After: Jean Siméon Chardin; Published by: Bernard Lépicié; Published by: Louis Surugue
School/style
Production date: 1744
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 380 millimetres; Width: 276 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After a painting by Chardin, shown at the Salon in 1737 and now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; the print was shown at the Salon in 1745, and advertised in Mercure (January 1745).
Bibliographic references: Bocher 1876 / Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin: catalogue raisonné (48); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (69)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1878,0511.1019

Free entry