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Dame prenant son thé (Woman Taking Tea)


Une dame penant son thé (Woman Having Tea)
Pierre Filloeul (French, 1696–after 1754)
After: Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779)
1749

Medium/Technique Engraving on dark cream antique laid paper
Dimensions Overall: 27.7 x 30.9cm (10 7/8 x 12 3/16in.)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1471
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bocher 13; LeBl 21
DescriptionAfter the painting Une dame qui prend du thé (A Lady Taking Tea), 1735, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
InscriptionsQue 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.]
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (1826-1899, Paris, Lugt 208); by whom given to MFA June 12, 1900