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Currently not on display

Bernard Lépicié

Paris, 1698 - Paris, 1755

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin

1699 - 1779

The Governess

Date 1739
Materials and Techniques etching and engraving
Size(cm) 37.4 x 26.7
Standard ref. Bocher 24 A; Roland Michel IX.
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1998-0077

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 1999.

Exhibition History

2017
[Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 22

Bibliography

1983
Rosenberg, Pierre. Tout l'œuvre peint de Chardin. Paris, Flammarion, 1983, cat. no. 117 b
1992
The Exquisite Engravings of 18th Century France (exh. cat.). 12 - 24 October 1992. Tokyo, ARCADIA, 1992, cat. no. 1
2000
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 33 (April 1998-March 1999), 2000, List of New Acquisitions. p. 48.
2017
Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 47, 139, cat. no. 22, col. repr.

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