La bonne mère
Nicolas Delaunay
Description
Unlike Delaunay’s earlier prints in this exhibition, La bonne mère departs from the portrayals of dalliances and extravagant costumes of Rococo decoration. The cynicism and excesses of the aristocratic classes led towards a new taste for more "bourgeois" values and virtues. Set in a lush and fecund garden, the woman with her three children and cat is the model of rational and enlightened motherhood. This large and impressive engraving was executed after a watercolor by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Exhibition label copy from "Eighteenth Century French Prints and Drawings," February 1 - May 4, 2003 by Curator Carole McNamara
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