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Mort du Général Montcalm

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Date:

before July 3, 1783.

Reference:

Box number: 2000832240

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2880161

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William Molson Macpherson fonds

Graphic material and artwork

Mort du Général Montcalm
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Date(s):

before July 3, 1783.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Place of printing:

Rue Froidmanteau No. 16, à Paris and Rue du Coq St. Honoré, à Paris

Extent:

1 print : engraving on wove paper.
Support 50.600 x 63.800 cm
Image 42.500 x 58.800 cm
Platemark 49.800 x 62.200 cm

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Verso bears pencil inscription, u.c.: William Molson Macpherson Collection 1933, Vateau [sic] is Louis-Joseph Watteau (1731-1798) (dit Watteau de Lille) an artist and engraver who executed genre and military scenes, and died in Lille. Juste Chevillet (1729-1790) is an artist and engraver who was a pupil of J.G. Wille and is known to have reproduced works by Watteau de Lille. [Bénézit, E. "Dictionnaire...des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs," Gründ, 1999]., Announced in the "Journal de Paris" of 3 July, 1783. For reference to this print see: Roux, Marcel. "Bibliothèque Nationale...Inventaire du Fonds Francçais, Graveurs du SVIIIième Siècle." Vol. 4 Cathelin - Cochin...Paris, 1940.
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Artist: Watteau, Louis, 1731-1798

Engraver: Chevillet, Juste 1729-1790

Montcalm, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759
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Attributions and conjectures:

Copied after the artist Louis Watteau.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed., Inscription: in the plate, l.l.: Vateau delineavit.; b.: MORT DU GÉNÉRAL MONT CALM / Tué en défendant Québec en 1759 contre les Anglais, Il demanda a être enterré dans un trou fait par l'explosion d'une bombe, au même combat fut tué le Général Wolfe / qui commandoit l'Armeé Anglaise; les deux Généraux expirenet de leurs blessures à peut près au même instant. / A Paris chez Alibert M[^d]'Estampes Rue Froidmanteau N[^o] 16 _ et chez la Citoyenne Bergny aussi M[^ds][?] d'Estampe rue du Coq S[^t]. Honoré.; l.r.: Gravé par G. Chevillet. Graveur de sa M.I.
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Québec

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évenement
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1989-514 X DAP
00067
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physcial access through an art archivist. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1989-514]

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000832240 Item no. assigned by LAC 67

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [0000-000] C-003704

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1989-514-67
Copyright: Expired

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