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A man curled up in a chair looks toward another man who approaches him from the left in an interior setting, a woman and a man stand nearby with their hands raised, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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A man curled up in a chair looks toward another man who approaches him from the left in an interior setting, a woman and a man stand nearby with their hands raised, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin|Claude Nicolas Malapeau

Date
ca. 1784
Medium
Etching with engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 6 5/16 x 3 9/16 in. (16 x 9 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
2012.136.58.1
Credit line
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

French, born Paris, 1738|French, Paris 1755–1803 Paris

Subjects and terms

  • Interiors
  • Men
  • Women
  • Chairs

The Met object ID 399189. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.