print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.325
- Title
- Object: Les premiers pas de l'enfance
- Description
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First steps, after Schenau: humble interior with a woman seated on the left, holding an apple and beckoning a child who walks towards her with the help of a baby walker; the child's older brother and grandmother look on and marvel at the child's first steps; on the left a cat drinks from a bowl; toys are scattered on the floor. 1767
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1767
- Dimensions
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Height: 502 millimetres
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Width: 365 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Plate advertised with its pair ('La mère qui intercède', see 1875,0710.476) in 'L'Avant-coureur', 12 January 1767. The prints were sold for 4 livres each.
Lit.: Anke Frölich-Schauseil, 'Schenau (1737-1806): Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik von Johann Eleazar Zeissig, gen. Schenau', Petersberg, 2018, cat. no. GA 33.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.325
