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The Unfortunate Calas Family (La Malheureuse Famille Calas)

Maker

Louis de Carmontelle (artist)
1717-1806

(etcher)
1721-1775

Title

The Unfortunate Calas Family (La Malheureuse Famille Calas)

Date of Production

1765

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 35.4 cm
Width: 43.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5892

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

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Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : L. C. De Carmontelle delineavit 1765 //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin right & recto : : Delafosse Sculpsit. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : LA MALHEREUREUSE FAMILLE CALAS. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : La Mere, les deux Filles, avec Jeanne Viguiere, leur bonne Servante, le Fils et son ami, le jeune Lavaysse //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : Qualibus in tenebris vitae quantisque periclis / Degitur hoc aevi quodcumque est. Lucret. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : Avec Privilege du Roi. //

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