Les Nourrices (The Nurses), 1780

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 4

Accession Number

1942.9.2376

Artists / Makers

Jean-François Janinet (artist) French, 1752 - 1814

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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.