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Rocaille (from a Suite of Five Designs for Screen Panels)
Claude Augustin Duflos (French, 1700–1786)
After: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Published by: Nicolas de Larmessin III (French, 1684–1755)
After: François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Published by: Nicolas de Larmessin III (French, 1684–1755)
French
about 1735-1760
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 55.8 × 36.8 cm (21 15/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Platemark: 51.3 × 26.2 cm (20 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 51.3 × 26.2 cm (20 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in Memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number2016.11
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Marks
Verso, center, in gray ink, the duplicate stamp of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsOn the reverse: Boucher/41105 and 3280 Duflos, Claude Augustin
ProvenanceAbout 1800, probably acquired by Duke Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1750 – d. 1806), Coburg, Germany, and became part of the Graphische Sammlung Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a), Germany (Inventory no. IX,519,23); May 10-15, 1929, Veste Coburg duplicates sale, Boerner, Leipzig, included in lot 1230. 2015, sold, probably by the Galerie Seydoux, Paris, to Jan Johnson Old Master and Modern Prints, Inc., Chambly, Quebec; 2016, sold by Jan Johnson to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 27, 2016)