Dame prenant son thé (Woman Taking Tea)
Une dame penant son thé (Woman Having Tea)
1749
Pierre Filloeul (French, 1696–after 1754), After Jean Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779)
Catalogue Raisonné
Bocher 13; LeBl 21
Dimensions
Overall: 27.7 x 30.9cm (10 7/8 x 12 3/16in.)
Accession Number
B1471
Medium or Technique
Engraving on dark cream antique laid paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
After the painting Une dame qui prend du thé (A Lady Taking Tea), 1735, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Inscription
Que le jeune Damis seroit heureux, Climène,
Si cette bouillante liqueur,
Pouvoit échauffer votre coeur,
Et si le sucre avoit la vertue souveraine
D'adoucir ce qu'en votre humeur,
Cet amant trouve de rigueur.
[How happy young Damis would be, Climène,
If this boiling liquor
Could warm your heart,
And if sugar had the supreme power
Of sweetening in your mood
The sternness that suitor finds.]
Provenance
William Perkins Babcock (1826-1899, Paris, Lugt 208); by whom given to MFA June 12, 1900
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock