print
- Museum number
- 1929,0611.5
- Title
- Object: Le Fruit de l'amour secret
- Description
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The fruit of secret love: comfortable interior with woman sitting in an armchair in front of a canopy bed, and holding out her hand to her lover sitting on the right; on the left, a servant entrusting the illegitimate baby to a man; proof before letters. 1777
Engraving
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 468 millimetres
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Width: 335 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Advertised in 'Mercure de France', June 1777. Engraved after a gouache shown at the Salon in 1767.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Acquisition notes
- sale Boerner 13/5 May 1929, lot 530
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,0611.5
