PrintsFrench18th century

The Pleasures of Fishing

18th century

Artists

Jacques Firmin BeauvarletArtist

François BoucherArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 45.1 × 34.8 cm (17 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.) Plate: 50 × 37 cm (19 11/16 × 14 9/16 in.) Sheet: 51 × 38 cm (20 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

Provenance

John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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