PrintsFrench18th century

In Expectation of Pleasure

18th century

Artists

Louis Simon LempereurArtist

Annibale CarracciArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 35.5 × 50 cm (14 × 19 11/16 in.) Plate: 42.5 × 53.2 cm (16 3/4 × 20 15/16 in.) Sheet: 52.2 × 67.7 cm (20 9/16 × 26 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Francis Calley, Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

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