Giuseppe Passeri, after. Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri. 1742.
Giuseppe Passeri, after. Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri. 1742.
Giuseppe Passeri, after. Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri. 1742.
Giuseppe Passeri, after. Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri. 1742.
Giuseppe Passeri, after. Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri. 1742.
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Giuseppe Passeri, after. Assumption of the Virgin. Engraving by Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri. 1742.

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Artist: Giuseppe Passeri (Italian, 1654-1714).
Engraver: Paul Ponce Antoine Robert de Séri (French, 1686-1733), worked for Crozat, supplying outline etchings for the woodcut tone blocks.
Engraver: Nicolas Lesueur (French, 1690-1764), draughtsman and printmaker. Chiaroscuro woodcuts, with blocks printed over woodcut or etched base. Worked for Recueil Crozat.
Title: L'Assomption de la Vierge (Assumption of the Virgin).
Titled, Dated, and Signed in plate: L'Assomption de la Vierge. D'après le dessein de Joseph Passari, qui est dans le Cabinet de Mr Crozat / Gravé à l'eau forte par P. P. A. Robert, et en bois sous sa conduite par Nicolas le Sueur [numbered on plate, lower right] '131'.
Dimensions: Platemark 11 1/2" x 9 1/2". Sheet 21 1/4" x 16". 
Edition: Joseph Antoine de Crozat, Marquis de Tugny. Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux Tableaux et d'après les plus beaux Desseins qui sont en France dans le Cabinet du Roy, dans celuy de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, & dans d'autres Cabinets, Tome Second. Paris, 1742.
Materials and Techniquesetching and chiaroscuro woodcut, printed on laid paper in brown and green.
Provenance:  The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; p
rofessor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Watermark: yes.
ConditionLeft edge has cuts and holes from a binding cord. Tears. Wear to edges. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of[Known as the Cabinet de Crozat or Recueil de Crozat, Volume 2, No. 131].
Dateca.1742.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum  1855,0609.212 (for the reworked edition of 1763).
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: French School XVIII C. Italian School XVII C.

NotesThis entry incorporates text from the catalog entry of a similar item from the British Museum collection.