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Commissionnaire Apportant une Lettre (Messenger Bringing a Letter), from Mes gens, ou Les commissionnaires ultramontains au service de qui veut le payer (Servants for Public Hire)

1766–70
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: Commissionnaire Apportant une Lettre (Messenger Bringing a Letter), from Mes gens, ou Les commissionnaires ultramontains au service de qui veut le payer (Servants for Public Hire)
  • Series/Portfolio: Mes gens, ou Les commissionaires ultramontains au service de qui veut le payer
  • Artist: Jean-Baptiste Tilliard (French, 1740?–1813)
  • Artist: After Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1736–1807 Paris)
  • Publisher: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1736–1807 Paris)
  • Publisher: Chez Basan
  • Date: 1766–70
  • Medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 6 15/16 in. (24.2 × 17.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
  • Object Number: 65.591.2(9)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Mes gens, ou Les commissionnaires ultramontains au service de qui veut le payer (Servants for Public Hire)
Multiple artists/makers
1766–70
Le Magnifique, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795, Jean-Baptiste Tilliard French, Etching and engraving; second state of three (Cohen)
Le Magnifique, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795
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Le Pate d'Anguilles, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795, Jean-Baptiste Tilliard French, Etching and engraving; third state of three (Cohen)
Le Pate d'Anguilles, from Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795
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Scieur de Bois (Wood Cutter), from Mes gens, ou Les commissionnaires ultramontains au service de qui veut le payer (Servants for Public Hire)
Multiple artists/makers
1766–70
Re-strike of Scieur de Bois (Wood Cutter), from Mes gens, ou Les commissionnaires ultramontains au service de qui veut le payer (Servants for Public Hire)
Multiple artists/makers
1766–70

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