Gilles Demarteau
La mere de famille (Woman wiping baby’s bottom)

CultureFlemish
Titles
  • La mere de famille (Woman wiping baby’s bottom)
Date1755–1776
MediumChalk manner engraving printed in red ink on laid paper
DimensionsPlate: 8 7/16 × 6 1/2 in. (21.5 × 16.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/16 × 9 7/8 in. (33.1 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Michael W. Dale
Object number2022.252
Non exposé

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Object Type
Provenance[Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, as of 2021-2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
-Recto: Inscribed on plate, centered below image: TIRE DU CABINET DE MADAME D’AZAINCOURT.
-Recto: Inscribed on plate, bottom left corner: F. Boucher inv. del.
-Recto: Inscribed on plate, lower center: A Paris chez Demarteau
-Recto: Inscribed on plate, bottom right corner: Demarteu l’aine Sculp. C.P.R.No 50.
-Verso: Inscribed in graphite, top left corner: NV 10776

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Catalogue raisonnéLeymarie no. 50, p. 27; Roux no. 50, p. 356; Jean-Richard no. 621, p. 178

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