The Indiscrete Spouse

1771

Nicolas Delaunay, Artist Pierre Antoine Baudouin, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title The Indiscrete Spouse

Artwork Date 1771

Makers Nicolas Delaunay (Artist) French, 1739-1792 Pierre Antoine Baudouin (Artist) French, 1723-1769

Medium Engraving and etching in ink on laid paper

Dimensions Image: 13 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (34.6 × 27 cm) Plate: 18 1/2 × 13 5/8 inches (47 × 34.6 cm) Sheet: 25 1/2 × 17 3/4 inches (64.8 × 45.1 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

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. F72.283.115

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Peint a Gou[illegible] par P.A. Baudouin Peintre du Roi. Inscribed, lower right: Grave par N. De Launay 1771. Inscribed, center bottom margin: L'EPOUSE INDISCRETE. | A son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Christian IV, | Prince Palatin du Rhin, Duc Regnani des veux Ponts Inscribed, bottom left edge: A Paris ches l'Auteur rue de la Bucherie la 1ere. porte cochere | au dessous de la rue des Rats. Inscribed, center bottom edge: AVEC PRIVILEGE DU ROI. Inscribed, bottom right edge: Par ses tres Humbleses tres Obeissans Serviteurs, | Baudouin et De Launay. Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Property of Will Rogers Paris. Inscribed, in black ink, lower right corner, recto and brown pencil, lower left corner, verso: 63 [circled]

Marks Marked, watermark, center of sheet: [Van Gelder device]

Provenance

Will Rogers (Paris, France). (Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein)

1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Nicolas Delaunay; after Pierre Antoine Baudouin, The Indiscrete Spouse, 1771, engraving and etching in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.115.