Les Moines chantant l'office (Monks Singing at Mass; Monks Chanting)
Jean Jacques de Boissieu, French, 1736 - 1810
1795
Etching on wove paper
Plate: 7 15/16 × 10 1/2 in. (20.1 × 26.6 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (21 × 27.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children
PR.974.456
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left margin: J. J. B. 1795; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 357
Provenance
Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.
Catalogue Raisonne
D.J. de Boissieur, J.-J. de Boissieu, Catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre, Paris, 1878, no. 93.
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