The Tender Desire (Le Tendre désir), c. 1761

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 58.1 × 43.4 cm (22 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
plate: 39.5 × 28.8 cm (15 9/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.2352

Artists / Makers

Manuel Salvador Carmona (artist) Spanish, 1734 - 1820

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (artist after) French, 1725 - 1805

Jean Massard (publisher) French, 1740 - 1822

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at lower center: LE TENDRE DESIR; in plate, below image, at left: Greuze; in plate, below image, at center: Massard Excudit; in plate, below image, at right: Cxxxx; verso: at lower right in graphite in later hand: K206 [circled] / Fr 133

Marks and Labels

none