Gilles Demarteau
Paysanne avec trois enfants (Woman with basket and three children)

CultureFlemish
Titles
  • Paysanne avec trois enfants (Woman with basket and three children)
Date1755–1776
MediumChalk manner engraving printed in red ink on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 11 5/16 × 8 3/16 in. (28.7 × 20.8 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 9 1/16 in. (31 × 23 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Michael W. Dale
Object number2022.251
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceJules Michelin (c. 1815-1870) (L.1490) [1]; [possibly his sale, experts Mannheim and Dumont, Paris 21-23, 1898, Objets d’art et de curiosité. Estampes, tableaux et dessins anciens et modernes, 198 prints included]; [Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, as of 2021-2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.

[1] Jules Michelin (c. 1815-1870).
On sheet: [collector’s mark Jules Michelin]
Jules Michelin, born in Paris and died in Limoges, was a pupil of Roqueplan and Ramelet. He specialized in landscape. Friend of Corot, whom he encouraged in 1858 to resume etching. He had assembled a collection of prints and drawings from various periods, the modern part of which went on sale in 1898. As this sale only included a few old pieces, it is likely that this part of the collection was made on another occasion.

Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
-Recto: Printed on paper mount, below bottom left corner of image: Boucher inv. delin.
-Recto: Printed on paper mount, below bottom right corner of image: Demarteau lnd Sculp.
-Recto: Printed on paper mount, center bottom edge: Du Cabinet de Madame Dazaincourt/Paris ches Demarteau avec Priv de Roi
-Recto: Printed on paper mount, bottom right corner: No 81.
-Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: Tres belle epreu[ve?]/[?] d[e?] collect[ion?]
-Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom right corner and right bottom edge: various faint to illegible annotations
-Verso: Stamped in purple, right bottom edge: monogram design: JM

[collector’s mark Jules Michelin, see below]


None known
Catalogue raisonnéLeymarie no. 81 pg. 35; Jean-Richard 1978 no. 649, p. 185; IFF no. 81, p. 365

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