Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: The song La valeur d’un baiser [the value of a kiss] and its accompanying print, recall the popular theme of courtly games of love. The print illustrates the moment prior to the lascivious desertion of courtly etiquette. A younger courtier is shown advancing upon a […]
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S.3.09 L’avare et la jeune esclave
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv / Masquelier Sc” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Mille talens….ah! le Corsaire / Cria l’Avare en s’ensuiant.” Keywords: Civilization, Classical, harps (chordophones), pilasters,Ionic order, beds (furniture), bed coverings,urns, doors, doorways, naked female body, […]
S.3.05 La leçon
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier. inv. / L. J. Masquelier Sculp.” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Bien que ce fut en chanson / C’etoit une leçon.” Keywords: interior, day (time of day), upper class, urban, windows, boiserie, stuccowork,urns, cabinets […]
S.3.02 La declaration ingénieuse
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 […]
S.3.25 Le melancolique
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / L. J. Masquelier Sculp.” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Lugubre nuit, par vos ténébres, / Venés chaßer l’éclat du jour.” Keywords: night, exterior,Moon, upper class, urban, sky, clouds, Chiroptera (order), Populus (genus), […]
S.2.20 La promenade du matin
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / L J Masquelier Sc.” Artist: “Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Sur l’œillet, et sur le jasmin, / Sur la rose qui vient d’éclore,” Keywords: day (time of day), exterior, upper class, gardens (open […]
