Album of Caricatures

second half of the 18th century

Not on view

This acquisition includes two portrait etchings, one of Saly and one of La Live de Jully, as well as a bound album made up of sixteen early impressions and one later impression of La Live de Jully's "Recueil de caricatures", etched ca. 1754 after drawings by Jacques François Joseph Saly, eight caricatures etched after Thiemet, and two anonymous prints of a standing man and standing woman.

Artwork Details

Overview

Provenance

Title: Album of Caricatures
Artist: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725–1779)
Artist: after Jacques François Joseph Saly (French, Valenciennes 1717–1776 Paris)
Artist: after Guillaume Thiemet (French, active ca. 1781/88)
Artist: after Charles Nicolas Cochin II (French, Paris 1715–1790 Paris)
Artist: Anonymous, French
Date: second half of the 18th century
Medium: Etchings
Dimensions: 11 7/16 × 8 1/16 × 3/8 in. (29 × 20.5 × 1 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Albums
Credit Line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014
Object Number: 2014.196.1 (1–27)–.3
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Portrait of La Live de Jully, Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Etching — Portrait of La Live de Jully
Multiple artists/makers
second half 18th century

Abbot Emeric Brulon (?), pl. XI from "Recueil de caricatures", Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Etching — Abbot Emeric Brulon (?), pl. XI from "Recueil de caricatures"
Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully
Jacques François Joseph Saly
ca. 1754

Rosa Diupert, Wife of Nicolas Bremont, Cook at the French Academy in Rome, pl. X from "Recueil de caricatures", Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Etching — Rosa Diupert, Wife of Nicolas Bremont, Cook at the French Academy in Rome, pl. X from "Recueil de caricatures"
Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully
Jacques François Joseph Saly
ca. 1754

Rita Pontani, Laundress at the French Academy in Rome (?), pl. XII from "Recueil de caricatures", Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Etching — Rita Pontani, Laundress at the French Academy in Rome (?), pl. XII from "Recueil de caricatures"
Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully
Jacques François Joseph Saly
ca. 1754

Youth Examining his Stocking (Young Boy of the People), pl. XVI from "Recueil de caricatures", Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Etching — Youth Examining his Stocking (Young Boy of the People), pl. XVI from "Recueil de caricatures"
Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully
Jacques François Joseph Saly
ca. 1754

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