Les Baignets.Dedies a Madame la Presidente du Plaa. Par...De Launay.
H. Fragonard inv. et del. N. De Launay Sculp.
AParis chez De Launay, Graveur du Roy, la Porte Cochère près la rue des Rats, Rue de la Bucherie. A.P.D.R. [n.d., 1782.]
Engraving, 290 x 330mm. 11½ x 13". Rather tatty extremities.
A rustic interior, children sitting at a table watching a woman, kneeling by the fireplace, making some fritters in a frying pan. In an oval frame on a pedestal with coat of arms. After Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806), painter and etcher; pupil of Chardin, then Boucher. It was advertised in the 'Journal de Paris' 2 May 1782; from a set of eight.
[Ref: 11508] £240.00
AParis chez De Launay, Graveur du Roy, la Porte Cochère près la rue des Rats, Rue de la Bucherie. A.P.D.R. [n.d., 1782.]
Engraving, 290 x 330mm. 11½ x 13". Rather tatty extremities.
A rustic interior, children sitting at a table watching a woman, kneeling by the fireplace, making some fritters in a frying pan. In an oval frame on a pedestal with coat of arms. After Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806), painter and etcher; pupil of Chardin, then Boucher. It was advertised in the 'Journal de Paris' 2 May 1782; from a set of eight.
[Ref: 11508] £240.00