Mrs. Legrand, Head Midwife of the Paris Maternity Hospice, born in Versailles, Auguste Toussaint Lecler, 1833

Portrait of french midwife madeleine-marguerite legrand, bust-lenth, directed to left and glancing to front, wearing bonnet and shawl, her dark hair dressed in tight curls; illustration from delacoux's "biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines" (paris: trinquart, 1833-34). 1833 lithograph. Date: 1833. Dimensions: Height: 160 mm (image area); Width: 120 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Madeleine Marguerite Legrand. Collection: British Museum. Mme Legrand Sage-femme en Chef de l'hospice de La Maternité de Paris née à Versailles (BM 1896,0511.257)