La bonne mere / Fragonard Pinxt. ; Audebert Sculp. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This antique engraving of La bonne mere / Fragonard Pinxt. ; Audebert Sculp. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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La bonne mere / Fragonard Pinxt. ; Audebert Sculp.
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Unlike many mother-and-child scenes on this board, this print reproduces a composition by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, whose light, affectionate Rococo style shaped late eighteenth-century French taste. The engraver, Audebert, used stipple, a technique that builds images from tiny dots rather than lines, which suits the soft skin tones and gentle light of Fragonard's domestic scenes. The hand coloring adds warmth to the faces and fabrics. Prints like this circulated widely in the 1780s and 1790s, bringing affordable images of maternal tenderness into many homes.
| Medium | 1 print : stipple engraving, hand-colored. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1780 and 1800] |
| Subjects | Mothers & children--1780-1800. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,152 × 1,463 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218871 |
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