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Mischievous Boys (Les Espiègles)
Charles-Melchior Descourtisca. 1785-1789
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Mischievous Boys (Les Espiègles)
- Creator: Charles-Melchior Descourtis after Jean-François Schall
- Date Created: ca. 1785-1789
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Descourtis sculp.”; inscribed, lower left: “Schall pinx.”; registration marks visible in center outer edge of each margin
- Print State: Second of two states
- 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. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds and purchase funds, 1988
- Materials & Techniques: Etching, engraving, aquatint (and mezzotint?) in mixed methods, printed in color on wove paper
- Keywords: children (people by age group), color intaglio, genre, nudes
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 554 mm x 425 mm (21.81 in. x 16.73 in.).
- Bibliography: Portalis and Beraldi 3 (vol. 1, p. 747); LeBlanc 3
- Associated People: Created by Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753-1820), After Jean-François Schall (French, died 1812)
- Accession Number: 1988.13.1
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