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Print

c. 1786-1800 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Chrétien, Gilles-Louis (Printmaker)
Fouquet, Jean (Designer)
Place of origin
Paris (printed)

Circular portrait printed on an irregular square sheet of silk from square-ish copper plate. Male sitter shown in profile, facing the left. The sitter's name and a line of verse encircle the image, within the platemark. Taped along top edge to thin card window mount.

Object details

Category
Portraits
Object type
print
Materials and techniques
Copper plate etching and aquatint printed on square fragment of silk (via physionotrace technique)
Silk (Textile)
Printing Ink
Etching
Aquatint
Brief description
Physionotrace portrait on silk: Jean Fouquet and Gilles-Louis Chrétien, Portrait of Jean Louis Pascal Roche (1765-1864), French, late 18th century
Physical description
Circular portrait printed on an irregular square sheet of silk from square-ish copper plate. Male sitter shown in profile, facing the left. The sitter's name and a line of verse encircle the image, within the platemark. Taped along top edge to thin card window mount.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm
  • Width: 10.8cm (Note: Plate mark)
  • Diameter: 5.7 cm (Note: Circular portrait)
Marks and inscriptions
Lettering encircling portrait medallion from right to left. 'Jean-Louis Pascal Roche (the tenderness of heart is the most Distinguishing Stroke of his character) né à Montpellier le 24 juillet 1765' from left to right: 'Dess. p. fouquet. gr. p. Chretien inv. du physionotrace rüe St honoré vis-à-vis l'oratoire Nos 45 et 133 à Paris'.
Association
Roche, Jean Louis Pascal
Bibliographic references
  • '1. [PHYSIONOTRACE PORTRAIT ON SILK]. FOUQUET, Jean, artist, and Gilles-Louis CHRÉTIEN. Portrait of Jean Louis Pascal Roche, late 18th century' in WINTER MISCELLANY. PHOTOGRAPHY, A PHYSIONOTRACE & A PEEP SHOW PAINTING, Quaritch (London: December, 2016), no. 1.
  • Bibliothèque nationale, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, (Paris, 1940), iv, pp. 493- 586 (Roche portrait not included).
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.208-2017

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Record createdJanuary 11, 2017
Record URL
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