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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G1705
People
Simon Gribelin, French (1661 - 1733)
After Paolo de Matteis, Italian (1662 - 1728)
Title
Hercules Rejects Pleasure and Chooses Virtue
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1713
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/277347

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 24.8 × 31.5 cm (9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.)
Plate: 28.5 × 33 cm (11 1/4 × 13 in.)
Sheet: 30 × 35 cm (11 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol. XI, no. 57, p. 7; Le Blanc 6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G1705
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Solkin, Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1992), repr. as fig. 16 on p. 63 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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