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La Belle Jardinière Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (1779 - 1857) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- engraving on Chine collé
- Dimensions
- 588 x 418 mm (plate); 611 x 459 mm (support sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto, within the plate, engraved:
below the image, left: Raphaël d' Urbin Pinxit.
below the image, right: Le Bon:: Boucher Desnoyers Dt. et Sc.
bottom: LA BELLE JARDINIÈRE DE FLORENCE. | Raphaël commença ce Portrait à Florence en 1504, il en fit hommage à Mgnor:: Tadeo Tadeï dans l'année 1507. | Cette jeune Villageoise servait de Modèle à Raphaël pour peindre ses sublimes têtes de Vierge.
Verso:
bottom, towards left, in graphite: a/-/-
bottom, towards right, in graphite: India Proof | Scarce 8 . 8 . 0
just below, in graphite: Ref 103
top, towards right, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.REF.103
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Laran, Jean, et al., Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des estampes: Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1939-)
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Reference no. 103
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Reference no. 103
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Standard & Reference series (1872)
103 La Belle Jardinière. (Raphael) E
