Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Catherine De Seine, epouse du Sr. Dufresne // [Catherine de Seine, wife of Mr. Dufresne].
Call Number
E East 46/GC077/Box 10/Normal/18th c./Artists H-Le GA 2012.00264
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcws859v01k
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1735.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1735
Extent
1 item ; sheet 42.3 x 29.9 cm.
References
Le Blanc II, p. 537, no. 24
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Engravings
Inscribed in plate, below: "L'art ne vous prete point la frivole imposture, // Dufresne, vos attraits, vos talens enchanteurs // N'ont jamais du qu'a la nature/le don de plaire aux yeux et d'attendrir les coeurs".
Depiction: 3/4-length portrait of Dufresene holding dagger, gazing heavenward.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Peint par Aved.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Grave par Lepicie".

Discovery Information

Subject
Actresses—France—18th century—Portraits
Portraits, French—18th century
Female nude in art
Dido (Legendary character)—Art
Art
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ba491dca-ff4f-4d9b-89dc-b9fe09d99b06/manifest