Example of humanity given by Madame la Dauphine
Pen and grey ink, grey wash, watercolor 11 x 18 cm
Our drawing, which has been passed to sanguine on the reverse, is probably the drawing made for the engraving.
A second drawing, signed and dated 1773, (pen and brown ink, brown wash, 12.3 x 19.5 cm), is kept at the Albertina in Vienna (see the catalog of the exhibition Marie - Antoinette, Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand - Palais, 2008, n°76, reproduced.
The composition was engraved by François Godefroy, in reverse (see Opus quoted above, n°76a, reproduced). It is dedicated to the Empress Marie-Thérèse.
This composition relates a happy episode in the life of Marie-Antoinette, then Dauphine, which occurred on October 16, 1773, during a hunt at Fontainebleau
While hunting in the forest, Louis XV was informed that the winegrower Pierre Grimpier had been wounded by a stag. The king sent for a doctor. As soon as he left, Marie-Antoinette got out of her carriage to reassure the distressed wife of the winegrower, and gave her his purse. This good deed made her very popular.
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