La Ratisseuse (The Turnip Scraper)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

François Bernard Lépicié

Title

La Ratisseuse (The Turnip Scraper)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1742

Medium

Engraving and etching in black on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Lettered, lower left: "J. B. Siméon Chardin pinxit."; lower right: "Lépicié Sculpsit 1742."; center, below image: "LA RATISSEUSE / Quand nos Ayeux des mains de la nature, l'Art de faire un poison de notre nouriture, / Ces légumes, garants de leur simplicité, N'etort point encore inventé. / Á Paris chez ;'Auteur au coin de l'abreuvoir du Quay des Orfevreau. / Et chez L. Surugue graveur du Roi rue des Noyers vis a vis le mur de saint Yves. Avec Privilege du Roi."

Dimensions

Image: 32.6 × 25.6 cm (12 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.); Plate: 38 × 27.5 cm (15 × 10 7/8 in.); Sheet: 47.8 × 37.9 cm (18 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund

Reference Number

2010.64

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