Le Jour, Galant Salon Scene - Original Line Engraving - 18th Century

An eighteenth-century salon: a young woman in full dress receives a group of courtiers while an old lady watches from her armchair beside the tea table. The same trompe-l'oeil frame on brackets as "La Nuit", with the title "Le Jour" and the couplet "Egards, tendresses, Soins, tout s'épuise en ce Jour".

Medium: Line engraving (burin) on laid paper.
Date: Last quarter of the 18th century.
Dimensions: 10.0 x 12.5 in (25.3 x 31.8 cm).
Condition: Good. Clean paper with full margins and a sharp platemark; light toning at the edges and slight waviness.