Allegory on the loss of virginity. Young woman with her beside a basket of broken eggs. An old woman pointing forward and with one hand a young man. Left a small kind. Manufacturer : printmaker: Pierre Etienne Moitte (listed property) to painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (listed building) publisher: Pierre Etienne Moitte (listed building) commissioned by Georges Gougenot de Croissy (listed object) dedicated to Louis V Joseph de Bourbon-Condé (listed property) Place manufacture: Paris Date: 1769 Material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 416 mm × W 48
Allegory on the loss of virginity. Young woman with her beside a basket of broken eggs. An old woman pointing forward and with one hand a young man. Left a small kind. Manufacturer : printmaker: Pierre Etienne Moitte (listed property) to painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (listed building) publisher: Pierre Etienne Moitte (listed building) commissioned by Georges Gougenot de Croissy (listed object) dedicated to Louis V Joseph de Bourbon-Condé (listed property) Place manufacture: Paris Date: 1769 Material: paper Technique: etching / engra (printing process) Dimensions: plate edge: h 416 mm × W 488 mmToelichtingHet painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Subject: loss of virginity symbolizedanimals (+ egg) lovers; courting, flirtingparents (first degree family relationships)
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