Artist Charles Clément Balvay Bervic, French, 1756-1822
Artist after Baron Jean Baptiste Regnault, French, 1754-1829
Title
  • L'Éducation d'Achille
  • The Education of Achilles (translated title)
Date 1798
Medium etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Image (no visible plate mark): 18 × 14 1/4 inches (45.7 × 36.2 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/4 × 15 5/8 inches (56.5 × 39.7 cm)
Credit Line Gift of R. W. Chamberlain
Accession Number 17.1
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower center: ENRÉGISTRÉE LE XIX GERMINAL VI. | L'ÉDUCATION D'ACHILLE, | Gravée par Bervic d'apres le tableau peint par J.B. Regnault. | Membre de l'Institut National des Sciences & Arts. | Se Vend chez Bervic, Galerie du Museum No. 12
Inscribed, lower left edge: Imprimerie par Ramboz.
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: No - 1
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Presented by Mr(s). R. M. Chamberlain, June 1, 1917
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [illegible numeric notations]
R.W. Chamberlain;
1917-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)