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Votive offering to Cupid

Pascual Pedro Moles and Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Votive offering to Cupid

1766-1796

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Votive offering to Cupid

1766-1796

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet (trimmed): 396 x 294 mm. (15 9/16 x 11 9/16 in.) Image: 371 x 269 mm. (14 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1823
Reproduces a detail from Greuze's 1767 oil painting now in the Wallace Collection, London.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: Spanish title inscribed in image, "Plegaria al Amor". Producer information inscribed in plate below image: designer at left "J. B. Greuze lo pinto."; printmaker at right "P. P. Moles lo grabo". VERSO: In graphite, lower center, catalogue information: "LB vol 3 no 5 p 36", lower right "11263" enclosed in a diamond. In violet pencil, dimensions are recorded: "24x32/ M J [illeg]".

Markings: CM: Claghorn.

Artist

Pascual Pedro Moles

1740–1796

Spanish, 1741 - 1797
Meet Pascual Pedro Moles

Artist

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

1724–1804

French, 1725-1805
Meet Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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