About the Artwork
By the River
1774
Jean Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810
French
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 1/2 inches (15.9 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 7 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (19.4 × 25.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S152
Public Domain
Markings
Sigend and dated, in plate, lower center: [artist's monogram] 1774
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
December 1885, M. Bruckner. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jean Jacques de Boissieu, By the River, 1774, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S152.
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