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The Soap Bubbles

Jean-Jacques de BOISSIEU

1736 - 1810

The Soap Bubbles

1799
Original etching, drypoint, engraving and roulette
350 × 450 mm, at top trimmed to the platemark, small margins on the other sides
Very fine impression on laid paper, of the final state, with roulette works on the background, behind the table, on the hands of young man holding the hat, printer’s crease in the lower right corner, some foxing visible on the reverse and on the margins
Watermark: Letters (difficult to identify)

Reference: Perez 109 v/v

Provenance: F.F. (not in Lugt)

 

Purchased by The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

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