Heliogravure of 1910 after "Le Vrai Bonheur", engraved with the burin by Jean-Baptiste Simonet from a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune. A domestic scene in the hall of a country house: the father with the child in his arms, the mother, the other children playing with the goat and the grandmother seated to one side.
Heliogravure of 1910 after "Le Vrai Bonheur", engraved with the burin by Jean-Baptiste Simonet from a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune. A domestic scene in the hall of a country house: the father with the child in his arms, the mother, the other children playing with the goat and the grandmother seated to one side.
Jean-Michel Moreau, called le Jeune (1741-1814), was the great chronicler of the manners and the dress of Parisian society in the time of Louis XVI. This impression was published in London in 1910 in French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, by H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton.
Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, after the original 18th-century engraving
Artist / after: Jean-Michel Moreau, "le Jeune" (1741-1814)
Engraver of the original copper: Jean-Baptiste Simonet
Date of this impression: 1910
Source: French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, London, 1910
Dimensions: 10.0 x 12.6 in (25.3 x 32 cm)
Condition: Very good condition; clean paper, with wide margins and the plate mark well marked.