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Etching

c. 1698-1726 (Published), c. 1638 (First published)
Artist/Maker
Jean-Baptiste Henri Bonnart (Publisher)
Denis Boutemie (Designer)
Unknown (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Paris (Published)

Etching.

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
Materials and techniques
etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Denis Boutemie (after), 1 of 12 plates of grotesque figures representing the 12 months of the year published by Jean-Baptiste Henri Bonnart partial reissue and copy of earlier suite. French, c. 1698-1726.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Average sie height: 10.4cm
  • Width: 63.5cm
Object history
Cataloguing note kept with the prints:

The original designs by Boutemie appear to have been reissued by J.B.H. Bonnart with the addition of the names of the months (in two cases impinging on the design) and his name and address below.
Bibliographic references
  • Not in Guilmard or IFF (XVIIe siècle, Vol. 1 & 2 and XVIIIe siècle, Vol. 3)
  • The 12 ornamental plates of phantatische Gestalten, under Boutemie. (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 4322.
  • Fuhring, P., 'Denis Boutemie: A Seventeenth-Century Virtuoso' in Print Quarterly IX 1992, pp.46-55.
  • Griffiths, A., and Philip Dodd, The Grotesque. Ornamental Prints from the British Museum, London, The South Bank Centre, 1995, p. 33.
  • Fuhring, P., Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, 11976-11987.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
29813:4

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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