- Artist: Jean Massard
- Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze
- Publisher: Jean-Baptiste Greuze
La Mère bien aimée
1774
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 565 x 670 mm. (22 1/4 x 26 3/8 in.)
Plate: 555 x 660 mm. (21 7/8 x 26 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society
Object Number
2007.250
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2007; Carolyn Bullard and Susan Schulman, Dallas
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, May - 10 September 2008.
"BMA Today," Baltimore Museum of Art, Fall 2008, p. 12.
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, below image, at left: "Peint par J.B. Greuze Peintre du Roi"; in plate, below image, at right: "Gravée par Massard 1775"; in plate, below image, at center: "LA MERE BIEN AIMÉE / A Madame de la Borde"; in plate, below image, at lower left: "A Paris Chez J. B. Greuze Peintre du Roi rue Tibautaudée Mlle. Niquet Scrip"; Verso: at lower right, signed by both artists: "Greuze" [brown ink] "Masssard" [black ink] [Lugt 1103]
Markings: WM: letters
