About the Artwork
Girl with Pigeons
18th/19th century
Antoine Pesne (Artist) French, 1683-1757 Carl Gottlieb Rasp (Artist) German, 1752-1807
Engraving printed in black on wove paper
plate: 12 x 8 1/8 in. 30.4 x 20.6 cm sheet: 26 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. 67.9 x 57.1 cm
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892
1991.55
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Markings
In plate, lower left: Ant: Pesne pinx:; lower right: C. G. Rasp Sculps. Dresde.; lower left of bottom margin: Quadro di Ant: Pesne / della Galleria Electorale / di Dresda. / Alto 2. piedi 9. oncie, Largo 2. piedi 2. oncie.; lower right of bottom margin: Tableau de Ant: Pesne / del la Gallerie Electorale / de Dresde. / Haut 2. pieds 9. pouc: Large 2. pieds 2. pouc:; lower left corner: T.III.; lower right corner: NO: 17; in black ink, lower right: (Paris) 1687-1775; lower center: Young girl with pigeons; lower right corner: Gift of Bela Hubbard. / 1892.; in pencil, lower center and lower right: 61
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Woermann, Karl, CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY IN DRESDEN: Dresden: Wilhelm Hoffmann's Fine Art Works, 1899, p 320.
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Carl Gottlieb Rasp; after Antoine Pesne, Girl with Pigeons, 18th/19th century, Engraving printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bela Hubbard, 1892, 1991.55.
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