Le Printemps (Spring, plate one from Le Quatre Saisons)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Title

Le Printemps (Spring, plate one from Le Quatre Saisons)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1735

Medium

Etching on buff ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, lower left: "Inventee peint et grave a l'eauforte par C natoire."; lower right: "Termine par P Aveline."; below image: "Ver Le Printems/ Dedie a monseigneur...general des finances/ par son tres humble...obeissant serviteur C. Naitoire PR/ A Paris chez Huquier vis a vis le grand chatelet aux armes d'Angleterre avec privilege du Roy."

Dimensions

Plate: 26.8 × 26.8 cm (10 9/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 42.8 cm (11 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.629

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