US-CtW-DAC/lido-ORID0016046
Davison Art Center 2010.8.1
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crm-concepts/#E22
Man-Made Object
print
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300133025
works of art
Image
Bal Chinois
Inscribed in plate margin, lower left: “C. Eisen pinxit”; inscribed in plate margin, lower right: “Avec Privilège; Chés François Graveur, au Triangle d’Or; Hôtel des Ursins, derriere S. Denis de la Chartre. Et à la Comette”; inscribed in lower margin, center: “BAL CHINOIS / Tiré du Cabinet de M. le Comte de La Vaulx de Vrecourt, Officier de Gendarmerie.”
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Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
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2010.8.1
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
41.55442,-72.65729
7014047
Middletown
41.55442,-72.65729
According to Carlier, François engraved six prints after Eisen. Of these, four were dated 1756. The latest possible date would be 1769, upon the death of François.
plate dimensions: 370 x 514 mm (14.6 x 20.2 in.). Sheet dimensions: 408 x 546 mm (16.1 x 21.5 in.).
creation
Designed by Charles Eisen (French, 1720-1778)
500024830
Charles Eisen
Eisen, Charles
French
1720
1778
male
Designed by
Engraved by Jean Charles François (French, 1717-1769)
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Jean Charles François
François, Jean Charles
French
1717
1769
male
Engraved by
ca. 1756-1769
1756
1769
Etching and engraving on medium-weight off-white laid paper
Charles Eisen, engraved by Jean Charles François
provenance
acquisition
Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2010
Chinoiserie
Adrien Carlier, Charles Eisen de Valenciennes, volume 4 of the series Cercle archéologique et historique de Valenciennes (Valenciennes, 1966), p. 263.
No known copyright restrictions
ORID0016046
item
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
CC0
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj15988
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2022-03-16
DAC_2010-8-1_001_249.jpg
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Media/249s/2010/DAC_2010-8-1_001_249.jpg
digital image
thumbnail image
overall view
Thumbnail image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
DAC_2010-8-1_001_OA.tif
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/open/images/DAC_2010-8-1_001_OA.tif
digital image
open access image
overall view
Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
US-CtW-DAC/lido-ORID0017918
Davison Art Center 2013.14.1
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/crm-concepts/#E22
Man-Made Object
print
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300133025
works of art
Image
Fantasy Flower Design
500302850
0000 0001 2291 0150
137205320
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
2013.14.1
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
41.55442,-72.65729
7014047
Middletown
41.55442,-72.65729
From the Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers de Fleurs idéales à l’usage des dessinateurs et des Peintres par Jean Pillement Graves par Anne Allen
image dimensions: 195 x 140 mm (7.7 x 5.5 in.). Sheet dimensions: 260 x 239 mm (10.2 x 9.4 in.).
creation
Created by Anne Allen (British (English))
Anne Allen
Allen, Anne
British (English)
Created by
After Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728-1808)
500022719
Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Pillement, Jean-Baptiste
French
1728
1808
After
ca. 1796-1798
1796
1798
Etching printed à la poupée in six colors from two copper plates on blue-tinged laid paper
provenance
acquisition
John E. Andrus III (BA Wesleyan 1933) Fund and Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2013
Chinoiserie
color printing
fantasy
flowers (motifs)
flowers (plants)
Carlson and Ittman, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715–1814 (Baltimore and Minneapolis: Baltimore Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984); Margaret Moran Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003), pp. 150–153.
ORID0017918
item
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
CC0
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac
http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj17615
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2022-03-30