(Untitled), 1809

  • Jean Jacques de Boissieu, French, 1736-1810

Etching printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 12 5/8 × 16 3/8 inches (32.1 × 41.6 cm) Sheet: 13 × 16 3/4 inches (33 × 42.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S155

Drystamp, lower right corner of plate: J.F. Frauenholz (Lugt 994) Stamped, in black, verso: circled VE [unidentified]

Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower center: Inventé et Gravé a l'eau forte par J.J. De Boissieu 1809. à l'âge de 73 ans. | derniere (sic) planche de l'artiste, qui est mort le 6 Mars 1810. Inscribed, center lower edge of plate: Nuremberg chez J.F. Frauenholz & Co. Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: 101. | Joh. Ja( ). Boissieu geb. 1736. | ( ) Lyon Inscribed, in pencil inside plate mark, lower left edge: III ( ) Inscribed, lower right: Nn 680 Inscribed, center upper edge: 376; verso, lower left: No 155 Inscribed, lower center: No 166

J.F. Frauenholz

September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, (Untitled), 1809, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S155.