PrintsFrench18th century

The Astronomer

1784

Artists

L. P. F. GarreauArtist

Jan VermeerArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 19.5 × 16.7 cm (7 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.) Plate: 23.6 × 20 cm (9 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.) Sheet: 34.2 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Provenance

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister. Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

Related Artworks

Prints

Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Nicolas Dorigny, c. 1715-c. 1725

18th centuryFrench

Prints

The Depositary

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

18th centuryFrench

Prints

Family Pleasures

Gérard René Levillain, 18th century

18th centuryFrench

Prints

"Quos Ego" Neptune Quelling the Storm

Pierre Charles Canot, 1766

18th centuryFrench

Prints

View Near Bologna

François Godefroy, 18th century

18th centuryFrench

Prints

Semiramis

Jean Pelletier, 18th century

Jacques Nicolas Colbert

Pierre Drevet, 18th century

18th centuryFrench

Prints

Castel Gandolfo

François Vivares, 1769

18th centuryFrench

Prints

Landscape with Cows and Goats, a Shepherd and Shepherdess

François Vivares, 1762