The Countess of Cassel and Her Son as Venus and Cupid
Artist
Simon de la Vallée
French, 1680–circa 1730
MediumMezzotint on paper
Dimensions17 3/4 x 12 5/8 in. (45.1 x 32.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Newhouse Galleries
Object numberG.67.22.3
On View
Not on view[1] The painting by De Troy, also given to NCMA by Newhouse Galleries in 1967 (G.67.22.2), was lent to an exhibition at the Finch College Museum of Art by Newhouse in 1963, and the mezzotint and its poem are mentioned in the exhibition catalogue, cat. no. 1.Published ReferencesAmbroise Firmin-Didot, Les Graveurs de Portraits en France, Catalogue Raisonné de la Collection des Portraits de l’École Française appartenant a Ambroise Firmin-Didot, vol. 2 (Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Dido et Cie., 1875–1877), 458, no. 2351 (likely different version).
A Loan Exhibition of French Masters of the Eighteenth Century (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1963), painting cat no. 1, illus. b/w., print mentioned.
North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 7, nos. 2 and 3 (1967/68?), 69 (erroneously listed as G.67.22.2).
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