L'Ete (Summer, plate two from Le Quatre Saisons)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Charles-Joseph Natoire

Title

L'Ete (Summer, plate two 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: "Invente peint et grave a l'eau forte par C.Naitoire."; lower right: "Termine par B.Audran."; below image: "Aestas L'Este/ Dedie a monseigneur...general des finances/ par son tres humble...serviteur C.Natoire. P.R./ a Paris chez Huquier vis a vis le grand chatelet aux armes d'Angleterre avec priveilege 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

2013.630

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