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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1917,1208.1929
Title: Object: Le bénédicité
Description: Humble interior with peasant woman seated on chair and watching her two children saying grace whilst seizing a pot placed on a table at left; tub, bucket, and plates lying on the floor at left; bird cage hung beside a window at right; arms ofD'Albert Dally in the bottom margin. 1772 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Jean Baptiste Greuze; Print made by: Pierre Laurent; Published by: Denis Charles Buldet; Published by: Jean Georges Wille
School/style: French
Production date: 1772
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 504 millimetres; Width: 413 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Advertised in 'Mercure de France', January 1773 and in 'L'avant Coureur', 4 January 1773
Bibliographic references: Smith 1837 / A catalogue raisonné of the works of... Poussin, Claude, Greuze (154); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (1)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: eating/drinking; domestic life
Associated names: Associated with: Marie Joseph Louis d'Albert d'Ailly, Duc de Chaulnes
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.1929

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