Suites d'Estampes Nouvelles pour les Contes de La Fontaine: Les Oyes de Frere Philippe (after Nicolas Lancret)
Nicolas Larmessin IV (Paris 1684 - 1755)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1700 - 1800
Materials
Paper, textile
Measurements
318 x 363 mm
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960084.4
Summary
Hand-coloured engraving, with areas cut out and filled with embroidered textile. Silk, silk brocade, linen or wool, silver thread (possibly gilt). Laid down on paste board with inscription in iron gall ink in the hand of Sabine Winn (née D'Hervart) (1734-1798), the Swiss wife of Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Bart of Nostell (1739-1785): ‘Monsieur Rowland Winn ma donné le tableau Sabine Winn née d’Herwart’. Also in graphite pencil ‘4’. Frame: Gesso and gilded frame, possibly modern with obeche build up on verso. Rippled spun glass. Brass pins in verso.
Full description
The print is from a series commonly known as the 'Suite de Larmessin' which was used to illustrate a book of Fables written by Jean de la Fontaine’s (1621–1695). A set of sixteen prints are in the Nostell collection and from the inscription on the reverse were a gift from Rowland Winn (5th brt from 1765) to Sabine, perhaps around the time that they were first married in 1761. See: 'Material Lives: Women Makers & Consumer Culture in the 18th Century' by Serena Dyer (2021), chapter 4.
Provenance
Presumably created by Sabine Winn (nee D'Hervart) (1734 - 1798) of Nostell and thence by descent. Purchased as part of a collection of furniture and associated archive material by the National Trust in 1986 from the trustees of Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald (1918-1984), supported by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Makers and roles
Nicolas Larmessin IV (Paris 1684 - 1755) , engraver (printmaker) after Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690 – Paris 1743), artist possibly Sabine Louise d'Hervart, Lady Winn (1734 - 1798), embroiderer