"Two Aquatint Engravings By Jean-francois Janinet After Jean Guillaume Moitte"
JANINET, Jean-François (Paris, 1752 - Paris, 1814).Two aquatint engravings bordered by a frieze decorated with sunflowers and a frame decorated with links, representing an antique bas-relief made by the sculptor Jean-Guillaume Moitte in 1789. “Constance of Coriolanus: Coriolanus condemned to exile by the Tribunes, consoles his wife and his mother and recommends his two children to them.The virtue of Lucretia: the sons of Tarquin the superb believing to surprise Lucrece wife of Collatin. Find her busy among her women spinning and working on woolen works”.
Names of the sculptor and the artist in the lower margin: Moitte Sculpteur del. APDR Janinet sculpture 1789.
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