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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1917,1208.3874
Title: Object: Adrienne le Couvreur
Description: Portrait of French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur as Cornelia in Corneille's 'La Mort de Pompée', half-length, looking up and carrying an urn containing Pompey's ashes, in an oval frame supported by a pedestal; lettered proof. 1730 Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pierre Imbert Drevet; After: Charles Antoine Coypel
School/style: French
Production date: 1730
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 407 millimetres; Width: 292 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Firmin-Didot 1876 / Les Drevet (Pierre, Pierre-Imbert et Claude), catalogue raisonné de leur oeuvre (24.III); Firmin-Didot 1875-77 / Les graveurs de portraits en France catalogue raisonné de la collection des portraits de l' École Française (502.III); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (17.III)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2000 Jul-Nov, London, Tate Britain, 'Sigismunda in Focus'
Associated names: Portrait of: Adrienne Lecouvreur; Associated with: Pierre Corneille; Associated with: Cornelia Metella
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.3874

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