Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 217 x 132 mm. (8 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Plate: 196 x 120 mm. (7 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Image: 178 x 104 mm. (7 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.934
Portrait of French surgeon Claude Nicolas Le Cat. For another impression of this print, see 1946.112.933.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate, four lines of text beginning "Claude Nicolas Le Cat / des Academies de Paris, Londres [ ...]"; above image, upper center, in plate "W"; below image, lower left, in plate "Peint par Thomiers"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1686"
Markings: CM: unidentified (possibly Gustav von Franck, Lugt 1152); Claghorn; Garrett
