Les deux avares [art original].
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Description
- Title
- Les deux avares [art original].
- Creator
- Fäsch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, approximately 1738-1778, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1778]
- Publication Place
- Paris?
- Abstract
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Drawing of two men standing and conversing, the man on the left leaning in close and resting his left hand on the shoulder of the man on the right, his right hand raised with index finger pointing. The man on the right stands with his hands clasped in front, his head turned toward the other man. Both men wear loose fitting coats and breeches. Probably a depiction of actors performing the opéra bouffon Les deux avares ("The two misers").
- Description
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Title written below image.
Artist attribution from manuscript note on paper label mounted below the set of drawings: Drawn by Fesch.
Place of production based on artist's main city of activity; date of production based on artist's death date.
One of four small drawings of English and French comedians mounted together on one page. Horace Walpole presumably kept similar drawings by Fäsch in his bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 113 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 8.8 x 6.5 cm
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pencil works..
Watercolors - Material
- pencil and opaque watercolor on vellum ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813.
- Subject (Topic)
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Theatrical productions
Operas & operettas
Actors - Subjects
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Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813
Theatrical productions
Operas & operettas
Actors
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Johann Ludwig Wernhard Fäsch, Les Deux Avares. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 13498235
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729714
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