print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: 1873,0712.271
Title: Object: Les nourrices
Description: The wet nurses: two young women, one standing on the right, the other sitting on the left watching over children. 1780 Etching and aquatint, printed in brown
Producer name: Print made by: Jean François Janinet; After: François Boucher; Published by: Jean François Janinet
School/style
Production date: 1780
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 263 millimetres (trimmed); Height: 319 millimetres (with border); Width: 143 millimetres; Width: 590 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Advertised in 'Gazette de France', 8 September 1780, 'Journal de Paris', 11 September, and 'Mercure', September.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (19); Jean-Richard 1978 / L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild (1224)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1873
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1873,0712.271

Free entry