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La Belle Jardinière Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers (1779 - 1857) (engraver)
    Object type
    print
    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

    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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  • 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

    • Western Art Print Room

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