La Toilette - Original Engraving - Freudeberg and Voyez - Paris, 1774

Dressing-table scene: the lady has her hair done by her maid while a seated dandy hands her a note. Below, the title "La Toilette" and the quatrain "Papillon voltigeant de toilette en toilette… Et ces amans du jour se tromperont tous trois".

It is the companion print to "Le Bain" (our no. 3979): both belong to the first series of the Monument du Costume, drawn by the Swiss artist Sigmund Freudeberg and engraved in Paris in 1774. This plate was engraved by Nicolas-Joseph Voyez the Elder; the impression in the Louvre bears exactly the same caption.

Medium: Line engraving (burin).
Artist / after: Sigmund Freudeberg (1745-1801).
Engraver: Nicolas-Joseph Voyez the Elder.
Date: 1774.
Source: First series of the "Suites d'estampes pour servir à l'histoire des modes et du costume" (Monument du Costume), Paris.
Dimensions: 10.0 x 12.5 in (25.3 x 31.8 cm).
Condition: Good. The engraving is mounted on a support sheet, which has a tear at the upper right corner; the image is clean and the platemark sharp.