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Object Type
print
Museum number
1851,0326.103
Title
Series:
Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun
Description
A Boy making Soap Bubbles; a young boy leaning outside a window and blowing bubbles in a shell, a woman standing behind him holding a lap-dog; his plumed cap and a vase with sunflowers on the window-sill, a bird-cage in top right; within arched composition; after Frans van Mieris the Elder. c.1780 Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Maurice Blot
After:
Frans van Mieris I
Published by:
François Basan
Published by:
Etienne Léon Poignant
School/style
French
Dutch
Production date
1780
(c.)
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
233 millimetres
Width:
177 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
From 'Galerie des peintres flamands hollandais et allemands'; see 1870,0625.753 for comment. After the 1663 painting by Mieris in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, inv.no.106.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(12)
(after Mieris)
IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes
(6)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
child
Associated names
Associated with:
Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun
Acquisition name
Transferred from:
British Library
Acquisition date
1851
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1851,0326.103