About the Artwork
Le depart du courier
ca. 1766
François Boucher (Artist) French, 1703-1770 Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (Artist) French, 1731-1797 Robbe (Printer) French
Engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 17 1/8 × 13 inches (43.5 × 33 cm) Sheet: 17 3/8 × 13 1/8 inches (44.1 × 33.3 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S111
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Markings
Inscribed, in plate, above the dedication: LE DEPART DU COURIER Inscribed, in plate, lower margin: Dédié à Madame la Marqise de Montesquiou. Inscribed, below dedication: [a four line inscription in French, partially illegible] Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower left: Boucher Pinx. Inscribed, lower center: A Paris chez l'Auteur rue de Tournon près le Luxembourg. Inscribed, lower right: Beauvarlet Sculp. | Imprimé par Robbé Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Provenance
May 1885, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA).Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jean-Richard, Pierette. L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher. Paris, 1978, no. 298.
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Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet; after François Boucher, Le depart du courier, ca. 1766, engraving and etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S111.
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