A woman in Russia is sitting at a table selling bread to an Albanian soldier wearing a long cloak; a child is curled up asleep on the ground. Etching by J.B. Le Prince, 1765.

  • Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste, 1734-1781.
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[1765]
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30312i
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A woman in Russia is sitting at a table selling bread to an Albanian soldier wearing a long cloak; a child is curled up asleep on the ground. Etching by J.B. Le Prince, 1765. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris] : [J.B. Le Prince and others], [1765]

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1 print : etching ; image 18.7 x 15.5 cm

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La marchande de pain.

References note

Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIesiècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome 14, Paris 1977, p. 451, no. 59 ("'La marchande de pain' (5). Un soldat albanais achète du pain à une jeune marchande. Entre eux on aperçoit, dans le fond, deux jeunes filles et à dr., un jeune garçon qui dort, couché par terre. H. 0m186 x L.0 m160. Hédou, 40.")

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Wellcome Collection 30312i

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