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La Critique de l'école des femmes [drawing].

Accession number
PML 18971, drawing 5
Creator
Moreau, Jean Michel, 1741-1814, artist.
Published
1773.
Notes
Title from published illustration caption.
Drawing for an illustration to "La Critique de l'école des femmes", appearing in volume II, page 447 (facing) of Molière's Oeuvres (Paris: Compagnie des Libraires Associés, 1773).
One of a collection of original drawings by Moreau le jeune for illustrations for an edition of Moliere's Works (Oeuvres de Molière. Paris : Par La compagnie des libraires associés, 1773), bound into a copy of the published volumes (PML 18970-75), preceding the engraved illustrations, with two sets of the engravings after Moreau present; each drawing cataloged separately.
Description
1 drawing.
Provenance
Martineau de Soleinne; vicomte Alexandre Frédéric de Janzé (Cohen-de Ricci).
Summary
Drawing shows an interior with four figures seated before a folding screen and listening to the young man standing at right.
Classification
Department