De gebroken waaier, Charles Melchior Descourtis (attributed to), after Jean Baptiste Huet (le vieux), 1769 - 1793

Title(s)

De gebroken waaier
L'Éventail Cassé

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1984-177

Catalogue reference

• Hérold 835-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• number: ‘No. 835’
• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760
• collector's mark: ‘Felix Somary’

Description

Een man zittend op een canapé, probeert de vrouw naast hem te verleiden. Zij houdt haar gebroken waaien in haar rechter hand.

Artist

• print maker: Charles Melchior Descourtis (attributed to)
• after painting by: Jean Baptiste Huet (le vieux) (attributed to)
• publisher: Louis Marin Bonnet (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1769 - 1793

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 336 mm × width 256 mm

What

• woman-chaser
• unsuccessful love affair; seduction

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1984

Copyright

Public domain

• Louis-Marin Bonnet (1736-1793) : catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé, p. 318, cat.nr. 835