print
- Museum number
- 1930,0617.55
- Title
- Object: La reconoissance de Fonrose
- Description
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Landscape with, at centre, the young Fonrose, in the guise of a shepherd, kneeling before his father and begging for forgiveness after having left home in order to live beside shepherdess Adelaide; at left, his mother, embracing Adelaide; scene from Marmontel's 'La Bergère des Alpes'; in ornate frame. 1786
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1786
- Dimensions
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Height: 319 millimetres
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Width: 377 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Advertised in 'Journal de Paris', 15 May 1786; in 'Gazette de France', 16 May 1786; in 'Mercure', June 1786; in 'Annonces, Affiches et Avis divers, 1 June 1786; and in 'Gazette du théâtre', 14 June 1786.
For information about the original story, see 1891,0511.93.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: La Bergère des Alpes
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1930,0617.55
