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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 224352, member: 56&quot;]I am aware of what “after” usually means in artwork, but I don’t think that is the case here.&nbsp; In this instance I think it is merely an imprecise translation from the French of a label on a form.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both vignettes are labelled, right and left:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]66730[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That would not be the case if these were someone else copies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Further, the notes from the second BnF link read :</p><p><i>Vue 1 : Marie-Jeanne-Phélippon femme de Roland ministre de l&#039;interieur en 1792: [estampe] / Levachez sculp.. M.J. Phelippon, femme Roland plaidant sa cause devant le tribunal revolutionnaire, le 19 brumaire, an 2.e / Duplessi-Bertaux inv. &amp; del. l&#039;an 7.e de la Rép.e ; Duplessi-Bertaux aqua forti </i></p><p><br /></p><p>In Duplessi-Bertaux&#039;s case, a restatement of what is on the print with nothing to indicate any other hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t see any signature on either portrait, nor does it say anywhere, except in that book record, that the portraits are mezzotints.&nbsp; They have the softness of mezzotints to my eye, but close-ups may help on that score, and I have no reason to doubt the expertise of whoever wrote that book catalog entry.&nbsp; Similarly, I have no reason to doubt the BnF statement of authorship.</p><p><br /></p><p>If these were my prints, I would be confident in saying the portraits are by Levachez, and the vignettes by Duplessi-Bertaux.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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