La Vertu au Cabaret

Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734–1781)

1768

Medium/TechniqueEtching and aquatint

DimensionsSheet: 26.5 × 19.8 cm (10 7/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler

Accession numberK4548

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InscriptionsLower right, in plate: Le Prince 1768 Lower center: in plate: La Vertu au Cabaret Verso, in black ink: S. R. Koehler Verso, in graphite: Le Prince Verso, lower left, in graphite: Drinking. / Love. Vero, lower right, in graphite: H 174

ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.