La rose, 1788

  • Philibert Louis Debucourt, French, 1755-1832

Combined intaglio processes printed in color ink

  • Image (excluding inscription): 10 5/8 × 8 5/8 inches (27 × 21.9 cm)
  • 25 × 19 × 1 1/8 inches (63.5 × 48.3 × 2.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Edward E. MacCrone Bequest

64.77

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: P. L. De Bucourt Peintre du Roi, pinx. et sculp. 1788.

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: LA ROSE. Inscribed, in plate, center lower margin: [14-line poem] Inscribed, following poem, lower right: le Cher. de P.... Inscribed, center lower edge: à Paris chez Lauteur cour du vieux Louvre la 5em porte à gauche en entrant par la colonade, au 1r.

State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Henry Graves Jr. (Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

1964-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Eighteenth-Century French Prints from Midwest Collections. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, 1984, no. 15.

Philibert Louis Debucourt, La rose, 1788, combined intaglio processes printed in color ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Edward E. MacCrone Bequest, 64.77.