Jean François Janinet - Les Sentiments de la Nation

The Sentiments of the Nation - Les Sentiments de la Nation

By Jean François Janinet, French, 1752 - 1814. After a watercolor by Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet, French, 1745 - 1811 :



Date:
1778
Medium:
Wash-manner engraving printed in color from four plates
Dimensions:
Plate: 8 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches (21.9 x 20 cm)
Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Object Location:
Currently not on view

Accession Number:
1944-80-69
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1944

Let's have a closer look :



Label:
Jean-François Janinet's tender family portrait commemorates the eagerly anticipated birth of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI's first child, Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (1778-1851). Here we see the queen holding the infant girl between an oval portrait of her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa, and a marble bust of her husband. At the left of this heart-shaped composition, a white spaniel and an anchor are symbols of fidelity and hope; at right, an altar symbolizes love. When reissued three years later in celebration of the birth of a male heir, Louis-Joseph-Xavier, the only alteration to the plate was the addition of the Dauphin's birth date, October 22, 1781, to the engraved text below.


http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/214425.html?mulR=8893

Voici un petit complément d'information dans cette autre description de cette gravure.

JANINET

Les Sentiments de la nation, en couleurs, pièce en forme de coeur, enguirlandée de lierre, de roses et de lis : Marie-Antoinette tenant entre ses bras le Dauphin, assise en face du buste de Louis XVI.

http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Les_Huet_1200177072/211

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