Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904.
2. S.P. Avery Collection.

Description

1. 2 prints : etching, drypoint; 30.6 x 30 cm. or smaller.

Summary

1. Etchings of the artist's wife sick in bed being brought breakfast by her two children; and in bed nursing an infant, attended by her maid and an older child, who is drinking hot chocolat.

Subject

1. Breastfeeding
2. Families
3. Motherhood
4. Painters' spouses
5. Wives
6. Women household employees

Genre/Form

1. Etchings – French – 19th century.

Contents

1. Coppier 75. La mère malade, ou le déjeûner -- Coppier 45. Le Déjeûner.

Call number

1. MEZAC

Note

1. Signed in pencil: Besnard.
2. Title devised by cataloger.
3. Titles from André Charles Coppier, Les eaux-fortes de Besnard, 1920.
4. The Sick Mother is numbered 12/100.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Cite as (note)

1. S.P. Avery Collection.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Finding aid available.

Provenance (note)

1. Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Author

1. Besnard, Paul Albert, 1849-1934.

Title

1. The artist's wife and children [graphic] / Besnard.

Imprint

1. ca.1886-1889.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Cite as:

1. S.P. Avery Collection.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Indexes

1. Finding aid available.

Provenance

1. Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.

Added author

1. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Collector
2. S.P. Avery Collection.

Research call number

1. MEZAC