Estimate

400 - 600

Session 1

2 June 2022

Hammer Price

Description

Black print on paper
Drawing by Pierre Etienne Moitte (1722-1780) based on a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
France, 1763

41,5x48,5 cm

Category

Etching

Additional Information

In period publications the scene is described as: somewhere in Italy a Portuguese nobleman, intending to get into a maiden's home in order to seduce her, presents himself as a salesman, but his plan is unmasked when the cross of Christ that he had on his neck is exposed; the maiden expels him with a gesture (said Neapolitan) to mock him
The engraving id dedicated to the Marquess of Marigny, Madame de Pompadour's, King Louis VX favourite mistress's, brother
In excellent condition