La Gageure des trois Commeres: La Servante, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"
Medium
Etching; first state of three (Cohen)
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/8 × 9 5/8 in. (33.4 × 24.4 cm) Plate: 12 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (31.7 × 24.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.104.32
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of 18th-century French satire with *La Gageure des troismeres: La Serv*, an etching from Jean de La Fontaine's *Contes et nouvelles en*, published in Paris by Pierre Didot lîné in 1795 third year of the French Republic This print illustrates a lively scene from La Fontaine's tale of three gossiping women and their wager, focusing on the servant in a cozy bedroom setting. Amid the Revolution's turbulence, the work revives the rococo spirit through designs by Jean Honoré Fragonard, the master of frothy, sensual interiors, etched by Philippe Trière. As a first-state...
About the Artist
Jean de La Fontaine|Jean Honoré Fragonard|Philippe Trière|Pierre Didot l'ainé (French|French|French) · 1621 |1750 | –1695 |1780 |
French, Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris|active ca. 1750 (?)–1780|Paris