Valmont and Emilie
Medium
color stipple and etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.2427
Art Historical Context
**Valmont and Emilie** *After Nicolas Lavreince by Romain Girard,1788* Color stipple and etching, Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art Step into the scandalous world of 18th-century French aristocracy with this captivating print, *Valmont and Emilie Created by Romain Girard after a design by Nicolas Lavreince just six years after Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's infamous epistolary novel *Les Liaisons Dangereuses* burst onto the literary scene in 1782, it depicts the seductive Vicomte de Valmont in a compromising moment with the innocent Emilie. This artwork captures the novel's them...