2016.15: The French Cook
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2016.15
- People
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Géraud Vidal, French (Toulouse 1742 - 1801 Paris)
After Françoise Cotibert, French (London)
- Title
- The French Cook
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: La cuisiniere Françoise
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1785
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/354795
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching and aquatint on cream antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions
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sheet: 20.4 × 27.2 cm (8 1/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
image: 19 × 25.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: bottom left, in plate: Cottibert pinxit.
- inscription: bottom right, in plate: Vidal sculpsit.
- inscription: bottom center, in plate: LA CUISINIERE FRANÇOISE / Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur Felix de Nogaret Bibliothecaire de Madame Comtesse d'Artoia. / A Paris chez l'Auteur, rue des Noyers No. 29.
- inscription: verso, bottom right, graphite: Mu [illeg.] 5/ 325
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Art Trade]; to [Emanuel von Baeyer, London, c. 1996], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2016
- Object Number
- 2016.15
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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