PrintsFrench17th-18th century

Youth Writing on the Side of a Tomb

17th-18th century

Artists

Bernard PicartArtist

Sébastien BourdonArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

French

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 12.1 × 14 cm (4 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.) Plate: 14 × 15 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.) Sheet: 36.2 × 26.2 cm (14 1/4 × 10 5/16 in.)

Provenance

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

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