Heliogravure reproducing La complaisance maternelle, engraved by Nicolas de Launay: a humble interior with the mother feeding her children by the fire, with the cat, the laundry basket and the ladder to the hayloft. Dedicated to Madame Jeanne Marie Pajot, with her arms in the cartouche.
Heliogravure reproducing La complaisance maternelle, engraved by Nicolas de Launay: a humble interior with the mother feeding her children by the fire, with the cat, the laundry basket and the ladder to the hayloft. Dedicated to Madame Jeanne Marie Pajot, with her arms in the cartouche.
From French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, by H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton, published in London in 1910, the image transferred to a copper by photomechanical means and printed by hand in a small run.
Medium: Heliogravure
Artist / after: Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (1723-1769), as lettered below the image
Engraver: After the engraving by Nicolas de Launay (1739-1792)
Date: 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: Good.