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La Bonne Mère

Artist Nicolas De Launay (French, 1739 - 1792)
Artist After Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732 - 1806)
Daten.d.
MediumColor engraving
DimensionsImage: 17 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (45.09 × 34.29 cm)
Sheet: 19 1/4 × 19 9/16 inches (48.9 × 49.69 cm)
Credit LineGift of H. Marie White through her mother Mrs. Nellie E. White
Object numberR63-20/2
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

[No exhibitions known at this time.]

Provenance

Nellie Elizabeth White (née White, b. 1877), Kansas City, MO;

 

Possibly inherited by her daughter, Hazel Marie White (b. ca. 1904), Kansas City, MO, by September 12, 1963;

 

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1963.

Published References

H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton, French line engravings of the late XVIII century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, 1910), no. 89.

 

Roger Portalis and Henri Béraldi, Les Graveurs du Dix-Huitième Siècle, vol. 2 (Paris: Damascène Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1881), 546, as La Bonne Mère.

 

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 289, as La Bonne Mère.

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