Family before a Fireplace (La Famille devant le feu)

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu1800

Details

Title: Family before a Fireplace (La Famille devant le feu)
Creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu
Date Created: 1800
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: initial “B 1800”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1944
Materials & Techniques: Etching and mixed methods (roulette, mattoir, and aquatint or sulfur tint) on laid paper
Keywords: families, family, fireplaces, genre, peasants
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Not one of the many restrikes published in 1820 by Chaillon et Pothel-Paris
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 240 mm x 360 mm (9.45 in. x 14.17 in.).
Bibliography: Perez (1982), seen by Mme. Perez June 1982; Le Blanc 26; see Courboin (II) pp. 235-36; see Carlson and Ittmann, cat. nos. 105 and 112; Robert L. Herbert, “Peasants and ‘Primitivism’: French Prints from Millet to Gauguin” (South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1995) cat. no. 1, p.22.
Associated People: Created by Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, 1736-1810)
Accession Number: 1944.D1.187

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