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Edmé Bouchardon

Print
1776 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (engraver)
François-Hubert Drouais (artist)
Place of origin
France (printed)

Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing half right, within an oval border on a plinth.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Portraits
Object type
Print
TitleEdmé Bouchardon (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Edmé Bouchardon, engraving by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet after François-Hubert Drouais, 1776.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, half-length, facing half right, within an oval border on a plinth.
Dimensions
  • Height: 38.1cm
  • Width: 26cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
French School
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Drouais Pinx. Gravé par J.. Beauvarlet. Gravé part Beauvarlet pour sa Réception a l’Academie en 1776.' (Lettered on the plinth with the name of sitter and biographical details, and below)
  • (Stamped with the marks of the collections of James Hughes Anderdon (1790/3-1879) (variant of Lugt 1470) and of Alexander Anderdon Weston (d. 1901) (Lugt 65 and Lugt Supp. 65))
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Subjects depicted
Sculptor
Edmé Bouchardon
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Le Blanc, Charles. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Paris. É Bouillon, 1854-1908.
  • Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Les Graveurs de Portrait en France. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1875-9.
  • Bibliothèque National. Inventaire du Fonds Français. Paris: M. le Garrec, 1930.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.78-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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