The Big Happy Family

Original Language TitleL'Heureuse Fecondité

Artist Nicolas De Launay (French, 1739 - 1792)

Artist After Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732 - 1806)

Date1777

MediumEngraving with etching; second impression

DimensionsImage: 10 7/16 × 11 11/16 inches (26.51 × 29.69 cm)
Sheet: 11 3/8 × 12 7/8 inches (28.89 × 32.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bloch

Object numberR86-8

Signedl.l.: "Peint par Fragonard peintre du roi" l.r.: "et gravé N de Launay graveur du roi"

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DescriptionCenter, profile of seated mother holding child; lower left child petting dog; center left, child on ledge behind; lower right, child leaning against mother's proper right leg; center right, open window with youth, and donkey leaning in from outside, eating straw. In horizontal oval frame with foliate decoration, top coat of arms; bottom center, title and five lines of text on each side.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Provenance

With Robert L. (b. 1952) and Barbara E. (née Klugman, b. 1958) Bloch, Shawnee Mission, KS, by January 1, 1986;

Given by Robert L. and Barbara E. Bloch to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1986.

Published References

Roger Portalis and Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, vol. 2 (Paris: Damascène Morgand et Charles Fatout, 1882), no. 15, pp. 541, 544, 546, as by Nicolas de Launay, as after Fragonard, as L’Heureuse fécondité.

H.W. Lawrence and B.L. Dighton, French Line Engravings of the XVIII Century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, 1910), no. 91 V/V, pp. 40, 59, 74, as L’Heureuse fécondité.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 289, (repro.), as L’Heureuse Fecondité.

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