Rocaille (from a Suite of Five Designs for Screen Panels)
Claude Augustin Duflos
(French, 1700–1786)
François Boucher
(French, 1703–1770)
Nicolas de Larmessin III
(French, 1684–1755)
about 1735-1760
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsSheet: 55.8 × 36.8 cm (21 15/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Platemark: 51.3 × 26.2 cm (20 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Platemark: 51.3 × 26.2 cm (20 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit LineFund in Memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number2016.11
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ProvenanceAbout 1800, probably acquired by Duke Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1750 – d. 1806), Coburg, Germany, and became part of the Graphische Sammlung Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a), Germany (Inventory no. IX,519,23); May 10-15, 1929, Veste Coburg duplicates sale, Boerner, Leipzig, included in lot 1230. 2015, sold, probably by the Galerie Seydoux, Paris, to Jan Johnson Old Master and Modern Prints, Inc., Chambly, Quebec; 2016, sold by Jan Johnson to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 27, 2016)