Figures de Modes (Frontispiece, from Figures de Mode)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jean Antoine Watteau

Title

Figures de Modes (Frontispiece, from Figures de Mode)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1705–1715

Medium

Etching in black on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, within cartouche: "Figures de Modes/ Dessinees et gravees a l'eau forte/ Par Vatteau et termine au burin par Thomassin le fils."; below image: "Se vend chez Thomassin rue St.Jacques a Paris."

Dimensions

Image: 11.3 × 7.3 cm (4 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.); Plate: 13 × 8 cm (5 1/8 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 14.8 × 9.6 cm (5 7/8 × 3 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

Reference Number

2013.1262

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