2017.120.28: The Game of Love
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.120.28
- People
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Jacques Philippe Le Bas, French (Paris 1707 - 1783 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- The Game of Love
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: La game d'amour / Amoris Diagramma Musicum
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1736
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359085
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
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sheet: 47 × 62.5 cm (18 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.)
plate: 31.6 × 36.4 cm (12 7/16 × 14 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: A. Watteau pinxit.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: I. B. LeBas Sculpsit.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: tiré du cabinet de Mr. D, Mariette
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: LA GAME D'AMOUR. / Gravée d'Apres le Tableau original peint par Watteau, haut / d'un pied sept ouces, sur un pied dix pouces de large. // AMORIS DIAGRAMMA MUSICUM. / Scalptum juxta Exemplar à Watteavo depictum, cujus Altitudo / cum septem uncüs continet, et latitudo pedem cum decxem uncüs.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: a Paris chez F. Chereau Premier Graveur du Cabinet du Roy rüe St.Jacques aux deux pilliers d"Or.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, by 1884, by descent, sold [through Christie's, London, July 15, 2015, lot 172]; to private collection, United Kingdom, sold [through C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], to; Harvard Art Museums, 2017
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- iii/iii
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 199
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.120.28
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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