About the Artwork
The Indiscrete Spouse
1771
Nicolas Delaunay (Artist) French, 1739-1792 Pierre Antoine Baudouin (Artist) French, 1723-1769
Engraving and etching in ink on laid paper
Image: 13 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (34.6 × 27 cm) Plate: 18 1/2 × 13 5/8 inches (47 × 34.6 cm) Sheet: 25 1/2 × 17 3/4 inches (64.8 × 45.1 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.115
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Peint a Gou[illegible] par P.A. Baudouin Peintre du Roi. Inscribed, lower right: Grave par N. De Launay 1771. Inscribed, center bottom margin: L'EPOUSE INDISCRETE. | A son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Christian IV, | Prince Palatin du Rhin, Duc Regnani des veux Ponts Inscribed, bottom left edge: A Paris ches l'Auteur rue de la Bucherie la 1ere. porte cochere | au dessous de la rue des Rats. Inscribed, center bottom edge: AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROI. Inscribed, bottom right edge: Par ses tres Humbleses tres Obeissans Serviteurs, | Baudouin et De Launay. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Property of Will Rogers Paris. Inscribed, in black ink, lower right corner, recto and brown pencil, lower left corner, verso: 63 [circled]
Marked, watermark, center of sheet: [Van Gelder device]
Provenance
Will Rogers (Paris, France). (Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein)
1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Nicolas Delaunay; after Pierre Antoine Baudouin, The Indiscrete Spouse, 1771, engraving and etching in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.115.
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