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Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, designer

A Reader, 1822

Description

Maker

  • Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1758-1823, French, designer
  • Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, printer

Title

A Reader

Year

1822

Medium

lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

  • Light weight cream Orienal tissue paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper (chine colle)

Dimensions

18.3 x 14.6 cm (7 3/16 x 5 13/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In Plate--Recto:In pencil in LL 188.3 Verso:in pencil in LR:166In Plate--In LL:Prud'hon inv. et del.; titled in LC:Une Lecture; in LR:Litho. de C. Motte

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

66.267

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Working the Stone

December 19, 1997 - April 5, 1998

Use

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