Tombeau de Jean Jacques Rousseau (Tomb of Jean Jacques Rosseau)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jean Michel Moreau

Title

Tombeau de Jean Jacques Rousseau (Tomb of Jean Jacques Rosseau)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1778

Medium

Etching on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, below image: "Tombeau de Jean Jacques Rosseau/ Vue de l'isle des Peuptiers...a ete enterre le 4. Juillet 1778./ Dessine d'apres nature et grave en 1778. par J.M. Moreau le Jne DeBinat.r et Grav.r du Cabinet du Roi./ A.P.D.R./ A Paris ches l'Auteur au Palais, cour du moi, hotel de la Tresoreric."

Dimensions

Image: 20.6 × 32.2 cm (8 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.); sheet: 28 × 37 cm (11 1/16 × 14 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2013.624

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