CATHERINE FRANÇOISE BEAUVARLET  (attributed by Le Blanc)

(Paris 1737-1769)

French school

“LA MAMAN” (The Mum)

c.1750-1769

ENGRAVING TECHNIQUE: Etching

DESCRIPTION:

Rustic interior with a woman feeding her two boys, who are fighting over a spoonful of soup.

At right, a cat crouched on a table.

After Jean Baptiste Greuze.

SIZE:   500mm(H) x 390mm(L)

NOTE:

With Damery’s coat of arms in lower margin

Smith 1837/ A catalogue raisonné of the works of Greuze (155)

CONDITION:

In very good condition.

Very good impression on thick laid paper with an unidentified watermark.

Good margins. Tear on the middle of the right margin restored.

Nothing to report.