About the Artwork
(Untitled)
1809
Jean Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810
French
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on wove paper
Plate: 12 5/8 × 16 3/8 inches (32.1 × 41.6 cm) Sheet: 13 × 16 3/4 inches (33 × 42.5 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S155
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower center: Inventé et Gravé a l'eau forte par J.J. De Boissieu 1809. à l'âge de 73 ans. | derniere (sic) planche de l'artiste, qui est mort le 6 Mars 1810. Inscribed, center lower edge of plate: Nuremberg chez J.F. Frauenholz & Co. Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 101. | Joh. Ja( ). Boissieu geb. 1736. | ( ) Lyon Inscribed, in pencil inside plate mark, lower left edge: III ( ) Inscribed, lower right: Nn 680 Inscribed, center upper edge: 376; verso, lower left: No 155 Inscribed, lower center: No 166
Drystamp, lower right corner of plate: J.F. Frauenholz (Lugt 994) Stamped, in black, verso: circled VE [unidentified]
Provenance
J.F. Frauenholz
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). 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, (Untitled), 1809, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S155.
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