Jacques François Joseph Swebach de Fontaine

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1769-1823

Portrait of Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810)

Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over graphite, on paper.

5 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (134 x 103 mm)

Purchased on the Director's Fund in honor of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard.

1986.120

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Watermark: none.
Copy of de Boissieu's etched self-portrait, 1796.

Provenance:

David and Constance Yates, New York.

Associated names:

Boissieu, Jean-Jacques de, 1736-1810, Copy after.
Yates, David, former owner.
Yates, Constance, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 382.

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