Le Coucher (Retiring for the Night, from Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-huitième siècle)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Antoine-Jean Duclos

Title

Le Coucher (Retiring for the Night, from Monument du Costume Physique et Moral de la fin du Dix-huitième siècle)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1774

Medium

Engraving with etching on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, below image: "Le Coucher./ Les yeux charges d'une douce languer...Respectons le secret des Dame/ A Paris ches Buldet rue de Gesvres."; lower left: I.H.E. inv. S Freudeberg del."; lower right: "Grave a l'eau forte par Duclos et termin au Burin par Bosse."

Dimensions

Image: 27.7 × 22 cm (10 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Plate: 41 × 32.5 cm (16 3/16 × 12 13/16 in.); Sheet: 54 × 41.2 cm (21 5/16 × 16 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

Reference Number

1926.958

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