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Object Type
Museum number: 1901,0911.1
Title: Object: La laitière
Description: The milkmaid: young peasant woman, three-quarter length, leaning on a horse; within oval; with remarque of a young woman milking a cow; signed proof, with publication line. 1901 Etching and engraving on vellum
Producer name: Print made by: Jules Jacquet; After: Jean Baptiste Greuze; Published by: Léon Henri Lefèvre; Printed by: Alfred Porcabeuf
School/style
Production date: 1901
Production place: Published in: London (England); Printed in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 604 millimetres (sheet); Width: 470 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: An advertisement for the print has been pasted on the mount: 'Just Published / "La Laitière" / (the Milkmaid) / Etching by / Jules Jacquet / From the original Picture by / Jean Baptiste Greuze / Bequeathed to the Louvre by the late Baroness de Rotschild / Remark artist proofs only - limited in number / Plate destroyed'.
Bibliographic references: IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (54); Smith 1837 / A catalogue raisonné of the works of... Poussin, Claude, Greuze (43)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1901
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1901,0911.1

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