ID: 700000915 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000915	Record Type: Movable Work

Le retour du bal (engraving (print); Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin (1731-1797), after a lost paintin...; published ca. 1758; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 558292; accession number: 2002.PR.72*)

Note: Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet, an etcher, engraver, and publisher from Abbeville, moved to Paris in 1750. In 1762, he was appointed Graveur du Roi and was approved (agréé) by the Académie Royale; The print after a lost painting by Jean-François de Troy served as a pendant to Les apprêts du bal. Its execution was announced in July 1758 in the Mercure de France; Gift of Etienne Breton, Paris. Publication: A Paris : Chez Marcel rue St. Julien no. 12 pres la rue St. Jacque, [ca. 1758].

Titles:

Le retour du bal (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)

After the ball: Woman being undressed (C,U,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))

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. 1758

Creator Display:

Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin (1731-1797), after a lost painting by Jean-François de Troy; published: Chez Marcel rue St. Julien no. 12 pres la rue St. Jacque [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Beauvarlet, Jacques Firmin (French engraver, 1731-1797) [500041147]

publishers Chez Marcel (French publisher, active 18th century) [500354126]

artist Troy, Jean-François de (French painter and draftsman, 1679-1752) Qualifier: after Extent: work depicted [500022010]

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: 558292; accession number: 2002.PR.72*

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

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving, etching

	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>)

	engravings (prints) [300041340]
	.......(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)

	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)

Dimensions: image 43.5 x 34.7 cm, in frame 61 x 47.7 cm

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	toilette (activity) [300379165]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	women (female humans) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	ball (party) [300069619]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, parties (events)) (AAT)

Provenance: Etienne Breton c/o Marc Blondeau, 11 rue de Miromesnil, 75008 Paris gift

Inscriptions: Le retour du bal; de Troy eques pinx ; Beauvarlet sculp.

Related Works:

	pendant of .... Les apprêts du bal [700000914]
	..........engraving (print); Beauvarlet, Jacques-Firmin (engraver, 1731-1797), after Jean...; Published: ca. 1757; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 558291; accession number: 2002.PR.71*

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Le retour du bal	........ [VP,GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 558292
After the ball: Woman being undressed	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

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

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

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