ID: 700000825 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000825	Record Type: Movable Work

Esquisse d'un tombeau (aquatint (print); Charpentier, François-Philippe (printmaker, 1734-1817), aft...; published 1766; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 718062; (OCoLC)ocn123502361; accession number: 2007.PR.4*;)

Note: Announced in the Avant-Coureur, 15 September 1766. Drawing in the Albertina, Vienna. Charpentier, a printmaker, draftsman, and mechanic from Blois who was active in Paris, invented machines, including one to produce an aquatint ground. The print after a design by François Boucher depicts a funeral monument with a central medallion of a young woman, flanked by two allegorical figures and two mourning putti. Publication: [1766].

Titles:

Esquisse d'un tombeau (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

Funeral monument depicting a young woman flanked by allegorical figures and putti (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

aquatint (print) [300041366] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints, etchings (prints))

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: published 1766

Creator Display:

Charpentier, François-Philippe (printmaker, 1734-1817), after François Boucher [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Charpentier, François-Philippe (French printmaker, 1734-1817) [500055598]

artist Boucher, Francois (French painter, etcher, and draftsman, 1703-1770) Qualifier: after [500032143]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 718062; (OCoLC)ocn123502361; accession number: 2007.PR.4*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: aquatint, brown ink

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	aquatint (printing process) [300053242]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes, etching (printing process))

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

Dimensions: sheet 30.5 x 19.1 cm

General Subject:

funerary (preferred)

architecture

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	sepulchral monuments [300005909]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, funerary structures) (AAT)

	death [300151836]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), personal life events) (AAT)

	allegorical [300055866]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, artistic concepts, artistic devices, symbolism (artistic concept)) (AAT)

	putti (children) [300307716]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion) (AAT)

Provenance: vbae; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Esquisse d'un tombeau Franciscus Boucher primus pictor regius invenit ; Franciscus Philippus Charpentier Blesens sculpsit. "Franciscus Boucher Primus Pictor Regius invenit / Franciscus Philippus Charpentier Blesens sculpsit"-partially legible within image, lower left and right.; "ESQUISSE D'UN TOMBEAU"--lower margin, center.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Esquisse d'un tombeau	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 718062
Funeral monument depicting a young woman flanked by allegorical figures and putti	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [VP,GRISC]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Le Blanc, C. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes t. 1, no. 47

Note:
English	..... [VP,GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)