Les Nourrices (The Nurses)
1780
Artist, French, 1752 - 1814

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.1 × 14.2 cm (8 11/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 28.4 × 20.3 cm (11 3/16 × 8 in.) -
Accession
1942.9.2376
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Catalogue Raisonné
Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 4
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1998
Farewell to the Wet Nurse: Etienne Aubry and Images of Breast-feeding in Eighteenth-Century France, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1998-1999, no. 21.
Bibliography
1880
Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 58, fig. 9.
Inscriptions
In plate, in image, at lower left: F. Boucher; in plate, in image, at lower right: F. Janinet; in plate, below image, at right: F. Janinet Sculp. le 15 aoust 1780.; in plate, below image, at center: Les Nourrices / AParis chez Janinet Place Maubert
Wikidata ID
Q64959210