Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / D Née Sc” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Si je vous le disois, la beauté que j’adore, / Le sauroit aussitôt que vous.” Keywords: acanthus (motif),lovers, couples, tricornes, court dress, courtship, chairs (furniture […]
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S.2.22 Le concert
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Le concert is set within a rich, but intimate space. It’s an intimate soirée, an evening entertainment with elaborately draped and trimmed curtains pulled shut, and the piano forté illuminated by candlelight. The two gentlemen who are apparently listening to the concert, one seated warming his […]
S.2.15 L’amour frére quêteur
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / Masquelier Sculp” Artist: “Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Vraiment, j’accomplis la loy, / Ma mere, je sais l’aumone.” Keywords: interior,night, upper class, urban, Cupid (Roman deity), staffs (walking sticks), bracelets (jewelry),necklaces, seating furniture, […]
S.2.07 Le clavecin
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: The young lovers throw their arms back in surprise at being discovered as the young girl’s mother enters the room – their arms form an incomplete circle to emphasise their recent proximity. On the stool in the lower right foreground, a lap dog (symbol of […]
S.2.24 Conseils aux femmes
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / D. Née Sc.” Artist: “Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Sa triste amante abandonnée / Pleure ses maux et ses plaisirs.” Keywords: interior,night, upper class, urban, boiserie, candlelight, candle sconces, candleholders, candles, chairs (furniture forms), […]
S.1.14 La fille mal gardée
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “JM. moreau Le Jne. Inve. Sculp. 1772” Artist: “Moreau, Jean Michel” Engraver: “Moreau, Jean Michel” Year: 1772 Inscription: “Malgré tout le Couroux de ton horrible Gouvernante, / Je viens à tes genoux.” Keywords: acanthus (motif), bed curtains, bed valances, bedrooms, boiserie, box beds, […]
