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Object Type
print
Museum number
1949,1008.372
Title
Object:
St. Aignan guérissant Agrippin
Series:
L'Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Description
Plate 113: Bishop St Aignan healing the Roman prefect Agrippa, after a bas-relief in silver designed by Meissonier for the reliquary of St Aignan. 1742/8 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Jean Joseph Baléchou
After:
Juste Aurèle Meissonnier
Published by:
Gabriel Huquier
School/style
French
Production date
1738-1751
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
472 millimetres
(cut)
Width:
310 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Plate 113 in the complete edition of 'L'Oeuvre de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier', a set of 118 plates after Meissonnier, published by Huquier from 1742-51. Many of the plates had previously been published in smaller sets: this is one of a pair after the design for the silver altarpiece in the church of Saint-Aignan in Orléans of 1725-30. The plates were engraved in the years 1742/8.
Bibliographic references
Fuhring 1999 / Just-Aurèle Meissonnier, un génie du rococo
(113)
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(10)
Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin
(378(R))
Location
Not on display
Subjects
ancient history
christianity
Associated names
Portrait of:
St Aignan of Orléans
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Liechtenstein
Acquisition date
1949
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1949,1008.372