print
- Museum number
- 1930,0617.56
- Title
- Object: Le mariage rompu
- Description
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Interior of a church, where a wedding is interrupted by a woman, kneeling at right, who is accompanied by two infants who, she claims, are the groom's natural children; the groom, who sits at centre, looks at the children, who are clinging to him, with a remorseful look while his father, who stands beside him, points at the infants; at left, the bride swoons in her mother's arms; in ornate frame. 1784
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 317 millimetres
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Width: 371 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Advertised in 'Journal de Paris', 18 March 1784; in 'Gazette de France', 30 March 1784; in 'Mercure', April 1784; in 'Annonces, Affiches et Avis divers', 16 March 1784.
A pair to a print entitled 'Le Mariage conclu' (IFF 66; see 1930,0617.57), also engraved by Robert De Launay and published in November 1784.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1930,0617.56
