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Print, Designs for Decoration of a Chapel and Garden Statuary

This is a Print. It was designed by Jean-Charles Krafft and calligrapher: Demoiselle Vallet and published by Jacques Louis Bance and printed by Adrien-Georges Crapelet and print maker: Boulay. It is dated 1812 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Krafft; lettered lower right: Boullay sculp

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, lower center left: Décoration de l’Oratoire, ou petite Chapelle vüe du côté du Retable, côté V; lettered lower left: Plan de la Décoration; lettered upper right: Le Couvert consolatoire du Bosquet des Soupirs; lettered upper right corner: Cah. 10; numbered lower right corner: Pl. 58

Cite this object as

Print, Designs for Decoration of a Chapel and Garden Statuary; Designed by Jean-Charles Krafft (French, 1764 - 1833); Printed by Adrien-Georges Crapelet (French, 1789 – 1842); Calligrapher: Demoiselle Vallet (French, active 1801 – 1812); Published by Jacques Louis Bance (French, 1761 – 1847); Print Maker: Boulay (French, active 1806 – 1812); France; etching and engraving on paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-552-59

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