print
- Museum number
- 1891,1116.81
- Title
- Object: Louis Seize the Queen and Dauphin
- Description
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Portraits of Louis XVI, the infant Louis XVII and Marie Antoinette, after Sauvage; conjoined busts in profile to right, against dark ground, in circular frame surmounted by small wreath and with below a tablet. 1793
Etching and stipple
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 154 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved after a portrait by Sauvage which was widely reproduced on print.
The De Vinck catalogue suggests an attribution to one Adam Gabrielli (not in Saur), an engraver from the Venetian family, who worked for Colnaghi.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Acquisition notes
- The complete bound series of portraits of members of the Assemblée Nationale in 1789 (1891,1116.25 to 82) was purchased for £5 6s from Mr Jukes Coulson of Marlborough Hill, London, and later broken up and distributed within the series of French portrait prints.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,1116.81