[La boudeuse] [graphic]

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Description

Title
[La boudeuse] [graphic]
Alternative Title
Capricious woman
Capricious girl
Creator
Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760, printmaker
Contributor
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, artist.
Published / Created
[between 1715 and 1760]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Landscape with, in the centre foreground, a woman wearing a dark dress seated on a stone and staring into the distance, to right; beside her, a man wearing a plumed hat reclining on the stone; beyond some figures resting under trees."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from that of the original painting, now in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.
Printmaker identified as Philip Mercier in the British Museum online catalogue.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0808.1958.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Original painting was formerly part of Sir Robert Walpole's collection; purchased by Horace Walpole in 1748 and later hung in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 152 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 29.8 x 24.1 cm.
Provenance
Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent
1 print : sheet 30.5 x 25 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Engravings England London 1715
Etchings England London 1715
Material
etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > London > 1715
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12805134
Object ID (OID)
16193203

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