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Le Ménage ambulant [The Traveling Household], after Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Primary
Louis Binet
(Paris, France, 1744–circa 1800)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1765
MediumEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 12 11/16 × 16 9/16 in. (32.3 × 42 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.1939
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.1939
On View
Not on viewGreuze maintained a stable of printmakers to interpret and market his designs. A pupil of Beauvarlet, one of his favorite engravers, Binet was a late participant. Le ménage captures the bold design and moralizing concern of a highly finished drawing that has been lost. An unrecorded proof, this impression is exceptionally strong but precedes an inscription underscoring the meaning: "These good folks carry everything with them.”
Exhibitions
Pierre-Louis de Surugue, the younger
1730
