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La Solitude

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

(engraver)
1707-1783

(publisher)
1707-1783

(publisher)
born 1706 or 1721, died 1774 (Life dates)

Title

La Solitude

Date of Production

1739

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 26.9 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2210

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, black ink: “D. Teniers pinxit."; lower centre edge, black ink: “LA SOLITUDE.”; lower centre, black ink: “De la tranquilite Sejour delicieux, // Lieu Champestre et desert vous enchantez mes yeux, // Et de vivre chez vous tout m'inspire l'envie. // Mais mon plus grand plaisir ce seroit d'ecouter, // Ces trois graves docteurs qui me semblent traiter // Des plus sublimes points de la Philosophie."; lower centre, black ink: “D'Apres le Tableau Original de meme // grandeur, tire du Cabinet de Monsieur // De Vaux. A Paris chez l'auteur Graveur du Roy, au bas de la rue de la Harpe, vis-a-vis la rue Perce chez un Fayancier. Et chez Ravenet Graveur, rue de la Harpe a la Premiere porte cochere des Maisons neuves vis-a-vis la Sorbonne.”; lower right edge, black ink; “19.me J.P. Le Bas Sculp. 1739.".

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