About the Artwork
Jesus dans le temple
1768
Jean Baptiste Le Prince
1734 - 1781
French
Unknown
Aquatint and etching in brown on laid paper
Image: 7 1/4 × 9 3/4 inches (18.4 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 9 1/4 × 11 3/4 inches (23.5 × 29.8 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
73.179
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left edge of image: Le Prince 1768
Inscribed, in plate below image, center bottom margin: Jesus dans Le Temple
Provenance
(Craddock and Barnard)
1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eighteenth-Century French Prints from Midwest Collections. The Dayton Art Institute. April 14-May 20, 1984, no 46.
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Jean Baptiste Le Prince, Jesus dans le temple, 1768, aquatint and etching in brown on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, 73.179.
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