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Claude Jean Baptiste Hoin

Death of a Capuchin Friar

Maker

Claude Jean Baptiste Hoin (French, 1750-1817), printmaker
After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770), designer
After Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), associated artist/maker

Title

Death of a Capuchin Friar

Year

1796-1797

Medium

  • Aquatint on heavy laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Aquatint on heavy laid paper

Materials

aquatint

Supports

  • Heavy weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 34.6 x 24.9 cm (13 5/8 x 9 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettere LL: "H.re Fragonard."; and LR: "C.de Hoin f. a...4."

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

66.091

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions
Feb 15, 2019 – Aug 04, 2019

Label copy

This luminous image, composed of tones of different intensities, uses minimal outlining. Deceptively simple, the tonal range was carefully modulated by selectively covering areas of the plate and repeatedly exposing it to acid for different lengths of time. The use of sepia-colored ink enhances the warm glow of the impression as well as its resemblance to a pen-andwash drawing.

While the print’s inscription claims it is after Fragonard, the composition is based on a brown-wash drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, now at the British Museum. Fragonard may have drawn a copy of Tiepolo’s work when he visited Venice. His copy was auctioned in 1775 after the death of the collector Pierre-Jean Mariette, then may have been acquired by Hoin.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Claude Jean Baptiste Hoin (French, 1750-1817), printmaker
After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770), designer
After Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), associated artist/maker
Death of a Capuchin Friar, 1796-1797
Aquatint on heavy laid paper
Plate: 34.6 x 24.9 cm (13 5/8 x 9 13/16 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 66.091

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