The Marriage Bed (La Couché de la Mariée)

Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, Jean-Michel Moreau1768

Details

Title: The Marriage Bed (La Couché de la Mariée)
Creator: Jean-Michel Moreau after Pierre Antoine Baudouin
Date Created: 1768
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Gravé a l’Eau fte. par J.M. Moreau le jne. et terminé par J.B. Simonet”; with full inscriptions
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. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1948
Materials & Techniques: Etching and engraving on laid paper
Keywords: beds (furniture), marriage
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 468 mm x 336 mm (18.43 in. x 13.23 in.).
Bibliography: Bocher 832; Draibel 12; Courboin 711–712 (vol. 2, p. 145) 711-712
Associated People: Created by Jean-Michel Moreau (French, 1741-1814), After Pierre Antoine Baudouin (French, 1723-1769)
Accession Number: 1948.D1.1

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