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The Good Mother (La bonne mere)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Nicolas de Launayca. 1779
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Good Mother (La bonne mere)
- Creator: Nicolas Delaunay after Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Date Created: ca. 1779
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left and lower right
- Print State: Fourth of four states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Purchase funds, 1974
- Materials & Techniques: Engraving on medium-weight laid paper. Watermark: No watermark
- Keywords: domestic life, family, genre, maternity
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 585 mm x 443 mm (23.03 in. x 17.44 in.). Sheet dimensions: 636 mm x 474 mm (25.04 in. x 18.66 in.).
- Bibliography: Portalis 11; see Carlson and Ittmann, cat. 88; Lawrence and Dighton (1910) 89 iv/iv
- Associated People: Created by Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739-1792), After Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
- Accession Number: 1974.13.2
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