Details

Subject(s)

• Manners and customs—France—19th century—Pictorial works [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Fans (costume accessories)—France—19th century [Browse]
• Intaglio prints—France—19th century [Browse]
• A la poupée prints—France—19th century [Browse]

Related work(s)

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715, aventures de Télémaque [Browse]

Notes

• A color intaglio print (featuring etching, stipple engraving, and line engraving techniques) with color applied a la poupée and hand-coloring. Printed on a laid paper sheet cut into a semicircle, probably intended to be mounted as a hand fan.
• The scene depicts a mother in an empire gown seated on a bank under a tree presenting a book (inscribed "Télémaque", i.e, Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) by François Fénelon) to her son, while her husband and daughter (holding a doll) look on. A large Punch doll hangs from a tree while a drum and diabolo are on the ground.
• Date range from period dress.
• Title devised by cataloger.

OCLC

1340436419

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