Le Retour Trop Precipite (The Hasty Return)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jean Antoine Pierron

Title

Le Retour Trop Precipite (The Hasty Return)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1788

Medium

Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, below image: "Le Retour Trop Precipite/ Il profita de son...la fontaine c.tre de la conf.../ Grave d'apres la gouache original de N.Pavreince. De meme! Grandeur./ A Paris chez Mondhare et Jean rue St.Jean de Beauvais. No.4.."; lower left: "Peint a la gouache par N.Lavreince en 1787.Peintre du Roide de Sued, de l'Academie R.le de Stockholm."; lower right: "et Grave par J.A Pierron, en 1788."

Dimensions

Image: 29 × 22.3 cm (11 7/16 × 8 13/16 in.); Plate: 40.1 × 28.8 cm (15 13/16 × 11 3/8 in.); Sheet, folded: 52.8 × 41.7 cm (20 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

Reference Number

1926.928

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