Artist Louis Crépy, French, born 1680
Artist after Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721
Title
  • Pierrot debout
  • Clown (translated title)
  • Paravent de six feuilles | Six Designs for a Folding Screen (series title)
Date ca. 1727
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 15 3/4 × 7 3/4 inches (40 × 19.7 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund
Accession Number 36.37
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Watermark, obscured by center of image: [letters]
Stamped, in brown, verso: J. Model (Lugt Suppl. 1488a)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Wateau pinx.
Inscribed, lower right: L. Crepy filius Scul.
Inscribed, lower right corner: 4
J. Model;
1936-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)