ID: 700000617 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000617	Record Type: Movable Work

Etude du dessein (engraving (print); Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe (printmaker, 1707-1783), after Jean...; published ca. 1757; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 827937; accession number: 2009.PR.12*)

Note: Featured in 1757 Salon (no. 155). Cf. Rosenberg, Chardin, p. 291; The reproductive print after Chardin's Drawing Lesson (Tokyo Fuji Art Museum) is dedicated to the Queen of Sweden, to whom the painting and its pendant The Right Education belonged. The work features a young man in a sparsely furnished room drawing after Jean-Baptiste Pigalle's Mercury. Publication: [ca. 1757].

Titles:

Etude du dessein (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

The drawing lesson (C,U,English,U,U)

The drawing lesson: Young man drawing Pigalle's Mercury (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (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)

reproductive prints [300041569]

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

etchings (prints) [300041365]

..... (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)

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 ca. 1757

Creator Display:

Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe (printmaker, 1707-1783), after Jean-Siméon Chardin [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe (French engraver and draftsman, 1707-1783) [500016455]

publishers unknown French (French cultural designation) [500125235]

artist Chardin, Jean Baptiste (French painter and draftsman, 1699-1779) Qualifier: after Extent: work depicted [500115331]

artist Pigalle, Jean Baptiste (French sculptor, 1714-1785) Extent: work depicted [500024799]

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: 827937; accession number: 2009.PR.12*

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: engraving, etching, b&w

	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>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(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)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(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)

Dimensions: image 25.1 x 31cm, plate mark 29.5 x 33 cm, on sheet 41.5 x 55 cm

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	drawing (image-making) [300054196]
	.....(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <drawing and drawing techniques>) (AAT)

	art education [300174155]
	.....(Activities Facet, Disciplines (hierarchy name), disciplines (concept), social sciences, education, <education by subject>) (AAT)

	boy [300247598]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	artists (visual artists) [300025103]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the visual arts and related occupations>, <people in the visual arts>) (AAT)

	Lovisa Ulrika, Queen consort of Adolf Fredrik (Swedish queen consort, 1720-1782) [500353820]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	sculpture (visual works) [300047090]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) (AAT)

Provenance: teeu; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Etude du dessein Chardin pinxit 1749 ; Le Bas sculp. "Chardin pinxit 1749."--lower left; "le Bas Sculp."--lower right.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Etude du dessein	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 827937
The drawing lesson	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
The drawing lesson: Young man drawing Pigalle's Mercury	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

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

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

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