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Author
Denis Diderot
Engraver
AJ Defehrt
Author
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
Publisher
Briasson
DimensionsSheet: 16 1/8 × 9 7/8 in. (41 × 25.1 cm)
Plate: 14 × 9 in. (35.6 × 22.9 cm)
Accession Number 2023.44.6
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedDefehrt fecit. (l,l plate)
InscriptionsPl. V. (u,r plate) Brasserie (l,c plate)
Portfolio/Series"Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)"
Paper/SupportLaid paper
ProvenanceJeffrey Hunter, Des Moines; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2023]
Brasserie, Planche V (Brewery, Plate 5), from "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)"
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Brasserie, Planche IV (Brewery, Plate IV), from "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)"
Denis Diderot
AJ Defehrt
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
Briasson
c. 1767
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Brasserie, Planche III (Brewery, Plate III), from "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)"
Denis Diderot
Benoît-Louis Prévost
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
Briasson
c. 1767
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Brasserie Planche II (Brewery, Plate II), from "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)"
Denis Diderot
Benoît-Louis Prévost
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
Briasson
c. 1767
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Brasserie Planche I (Brewery, Plate 1), from "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)"
Denis Diderot
AJ Defehrt
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert
Briasson
c. 1767
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Facing Brewhouse, Plate XXIV, from "The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, vol. 1"
Temple Henry Croker
ca. 1766
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Kunst Kenntnis / Connoissance des Arts (Connoisseurship of the Arts), from "Natürliche und affektierte Handlungen des Lebens (Natural and Affected Ways of Living)"
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
1780
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Kunst Kenntnis / Connoissance des Arts (Connoisseurship of the Arts), from "Natürliche und affektierte Handlungen des Lebens (Natural and Affected Ways of Living)"
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
1780
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Chinese Arabesque with a Double Parasol, from the series "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers arabesque chinois à l'usage des dessinateurs et des Peintres (New Suite of Notebooks of Chinese Designs for the use of Designers and Painters)"
Anne Allen
after Jean-Baptiste Pillement
ca. 1795
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
La Visitation
Maurice Denis
1894
Image Not Available for Marlene Dietrich Film Death, no.5, from "Art for Arts Sake Calendar 2000" (May)
Marlene Dietrich Film Death, no.5, from "Art for Arts Sake Calendar 2000" (May)
T.J. Wilcox
1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Des Moines Art Center: An Uncommon Vision, from the installation "Untitled Project: PROJECTION"
Conrad Bakker
2007
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sidewalk Kintsukuroi (Des Moines Art Center)
Rachel Sussman
2017