Prints / Portraits & Caricatures

[Plate] Dumont, J. / Daullé, J.

Croisses tendres enfans, fardeau de votre mere, vos bras saulageront un jour sa pauvreté: Taqndis qu´une riche douairiere, de ses enfans craint la Majorité.

Se vend, chez Daullé rue St. Jaque à St. Francois, vis à vis la rue de la Parcheminerie à Paris. 1739. Plate mark 38,5 x 27 cm. The whole sheet 58 x 42,5 cm. Engraving / etching.

Some fraying and a little dirt to the margins. A couple of minor creases.

A depiction of a poor mother with two children. Painted and etched by Jaques Dumont le Romain (1701-1781) and engraved by Jean Daullé (1703 - 1763). Dumont was a history and portrait painter, he also depicted popular subjects. Daullé was an engraver and member of "Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture".

Item No: 3336