Frontispiece Design

ca. 1700

Bernard Picart French, 1673-1733

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Title Frontispiece Design

Artwork Date ca. 1700

Artist Bernard Picart

Life Dates 1673-1733

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and gray ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted to french mat: front: blue laid paper with an interior border of paper colored green, backed with heavy cream wove paper,

Dimensions Sheet: 4 3/4 × 7 9/16 inches (12.1 × 19.2 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of the Drawing Society

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 61.46

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, lower right corner: "Picart" Inscribed, on mount, lower center: Bernard Picart. Inscribed, in graphite pencil, verso, center: 3/4 Flat Rope | 10 7/8 x 9 1/4 [partially erased] Inscribed, center right, verso: AOM; lower center right, verso: 12/15 Inscribed, lower right, verso: K3942; lower right corner, verso : 11 Inscribed, along lower right edge, verso: [indecipherable, erased] Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower center, verso:"BD-" (Lugt 350, Dr. Barry Delaney) Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: Bernard Picart | B. 1663 | D. 1733

Provenance

Rockman Prints (New York, New York, USA)

Drawing Society

1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, pp. 184-185, no. 83.

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Bernard Picart, Frontispiece Design, ca. 1700, pen and gray ink and gray wash over black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted to french mat: front: blue laid paper with an interior border of paper colored green, backed with heavy cream wove paper,. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Drawing Society, 61.46.