print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1914,0228.2965
- Title
- Object: Le Dépit amoureux
- Description
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Eraste and Lucile tearing up letters; Lucile, a fashionably dressed young woman, stands at right, with torn pieces of paper in her hands, looking to the left at Eraste, who stares back at her and tears up a letter; to the left of Eraste, his servant converses with him, his right hand on his master's jacket; behind Lucile, to the right, her maid indicates the gentlemen with her right hand; on the ground, in the immediate foreground, torn pieces of paper; at top right, the glimpse of a curtain can be seen; illustration to 'Le Dépit amoureux' in 'Oeuvres de Molière' (Paris: Prault, 1734), volume I page 129
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1734
- Dimensions
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Height: 228 millimetres
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Width: 166 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series, see 1914,0228.2962
For Boucher's drawn study for Eraste see 1856,0712.30.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Le Dépit amoureux
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Associated Title: Oeuvres de Molière
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1914,0228.2965
