Le Billet Doux
date: label: Date
content: 1778
name: label: Engraver
content: Nicolas Delaunay, French, 1739–1792
label: After
content: Nicolas Lavreince, Swedish, 1737–1807
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Print after a gouache work by Niclas Lafrensen, the younger. Shows an interior featuring a man and two women. The woman on the right is handed a folded letter by the standing man in the center, as she reaches towards him. She is seated with a small musical instrument is in her lap. The second woman appears to the left of the man; she is seated and reading a sheet of music. A harp, cello, and harpsichord stand to the right, and some books, music, and a box lie on the floor next to them. The interior is ornate, consisting of a mantle and large mirror in the center. The walls are decorated with roundels, sculptures, garlands, and Corinthian pilasters. The interior also includes a curtain on the left with a screen in front, candelabra on opposing sides of the mirror, and a carpet with an elaborate pattern. A cat is seated next to the fireplace in the center of the composition. A coat of arms and two lions appear below the image.
place: label: made in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1963-74-5
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving and etching on white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 55.6 × 42.5 cm (21 7/8 × 16 3/4 in.)