ID: 700001560 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001560	Record Type: Movable Work

L. Mercier (stipple engraving (print); François Bonneville (French engraver and painter, active ...; Published: ca. 1797; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 2710-385; 710385; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.24,f.10);)

Note: Also issued in: Portraits des personnages célèbres de la Révolution, par François Bonneville, avec tableau historique et notices de P. Quenard. Paris : L'auteur, rue du Théâtre-Français, no. 4, 1797, vol. 3; Another state bears the following inscriptions: peint par F. Bonneville / Gravé par Sandos; Announced in the Mercure de France, May 25, 1793; The three-quarter portrait bust of Deputy Mercier in an oval medallion is from the series of portrait prints known as the Collection Bonneville; First distributed in fascicles, the series was later published in bound volumes titled Portraits des personnages célèbres de la Révolution; Forms part of: Prints of the French Revolution, 1774-ca. 1840 (Special Collections, accn. no. P980009*). Publication: A Paris : Rue Jacques no. 195, [ca. 1797].

Titles:

L. Mercier (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Portrait bust of Deputy Louis Mercier (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Louis Mercier (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

stipple engraving (print) [300041364] (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, engravings (prints))

print (visual work) [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. 1797

Creator Display:

François Bonneville (French engraver and painter, active 1793-1802) [preferred,GRISC]

engraver (printmaker) Bonneville, François (French engraver and painter, active 1793-1802) [500008924]

publishers unknown French (French cultural designation) [500125235]

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: 2710-385; 710385; (CMalG)1516-756; accession number: P980009* (bx.24,f.10)

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] (Geographic)

Address Note: Rue Jacques no. 195

Display Materials: 1 print: stipple engraving, b&w

	stipple engraving (printing process) [300053239]
	.......(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))

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: plate mark 17.7 x 12.8 cm, on sheet 24.8 x 18 cm

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	Mercier, Louis-Sébastien (French playwright, 1740-1814) [500354579]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	politician [300025474]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in administration and government>) (AAT)

	single-sitter portrait [300404138]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	French Revolution [901000102]
	.....((French history, European history, Named Events)) (ICON)

Provenance: lfell; Purchase.

Inscriptions: L. Mercier né à Paris le 6 juin 1740, député à la Conv.on nat.lle / F. Bonneville del. sculpsit.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
L. Mercier	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 710385
Portrait bust of Deputy Louis Mercier	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Louis Mercier	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Bruel, L'estampe, 1770-1871 : Collection de Vinck (1909-1979) 2720

....................... Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du 18e siècle / Marcel Roux et al. vol. 3, p. 206-207, no. 118

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