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Le depart du courier

François Boucher, Artist Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, Artist Robbe, Printer
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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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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S111

Public Domain

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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.

Le depart du courier
Le depart du courier