About the Artwork
Le premier baiser de l'amour
1760
Hubert François Gravelot (Artist) French, 1699-1773 Noël Le Mire (Artist) French, 1724-1801
Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 4 3/4 × 2 7/8 inches (12.1 × 7.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
71.59
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: N Le Mire Sculp | 1760
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Provenance
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hebert, M. et al. Inventaire du fonds français. Paris, 1968, no. 1132 (under Gravelot).
Oehler, Richard. Gravelots Werk Als Bücherillustrator. Mainz, 1927, pp. 105-115 (not consulted).
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Noël Le Mire; after Hubert François Gravelot, Le premier baiser de l'amour, 1760, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 71.59.
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