This and 9 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Prints: Fourth Book of Vases and Book of Arabesques by Aubert Parent.

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1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

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Print, Vase After the Antique

This is a Print. It was designed by P. Aubert and print maker: P. Aubert and published by Chez Mondhare et Jean, Pierre Jean and Louis-Joseph Mondhare. It is dated 1789-1792 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.

It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 17.3 x 11.5 cm (6 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Lettered lower left, in plate: Aubert P. fecit.

It is inscribed

Printed lower left, in plate: Urne d'un Fragment Antique qui est / au Museum du Duc Salviati a Florence; Printed lower center, in plate: Vase de Composition posé sur un Tombeau antique tel / qui se voit à la Ville Madame à un mille de Rome, maison / de Plaisance de la Princesse de Medicis depuis Reine / de France connu sous le nom de Catherine Femme de Henri II; Printed lower right, in plate: Instrument consacré à Apollon representé / sur des Pierres précieuse dans la gallerie d'un amateur à Florence.; Printed upper right, in plate: 6; Inscribed in graphite, lower right, in margin: 1921-6-228(6)

Cite this object as

Print, Vase After the Antique; Designed by P. Aubert; Published by Chez Mondhare et Jean, Louis-Joseph Mondhare (French, 1734–1799), Pierre Jean (French, 1754–1829); France; etching and engraving on paper; Sheet: 17.3 x 11.5 cm (6 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-228-6

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