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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1769
Medium
engraving
Measurements
40.7 × 30.0 cm (image) 41.9 × 30.6 cm (plate) 46.1 × 35.3 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1959
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Smart 451
Edition
2nd of 2 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: A. Ramsay London Pinx. 1766
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: J. E. Nochez Sculp. 1769. no (o in superscript) 6.
printed in ink l.l.: AParis chez Delalain, Libraire, rue S.t (t in superscript above . ) Jacques, Avec Privilege du Roi.
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, / Né à Genêve en 1708. / Ainfi l'aigle caché dans les forets d'Ida, / pour prendre un vol plus haut, souvent le retarda. / Poëme le la Peinture, par M'LE MIERRE, Ch. 3.
Accession Number
521-5
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Another Work Costume Portraits
Subjects (specific)
authors chiaroscuro coats (garments) fur garments half figures hats philosophers Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Movements
Baroque