Identificationtitle(s): wedding party. La noce au château. Object type: print object number: rp-p-1962-299. Catalog reference: iff 17. Note: 3(4). Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso bottom center, stamped: lugt 2228 collector's mark, verso bottom center, stamped: lugt 2760. Description: an elegant company during a wedding party in a garden. In the middle the bride sits on a chair, next to her father, and behind her stands her mother. Before them, the groom dances with a fashionably dressed woman to the music of the orchestra standing on a platform. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: philibert-louis debucourt (mentioned on object), after own design by: philibert-louis debucourt. Place of manufacture: france. Date: 1789. Physical characteristics: etching, aquatint, printed from multiple plates in red, blue, black and pink. Material: paper technique: etching / aquatint / color printing. Dimensions: top: h 385 mm × w 270 mm explanation the print was announced in the journal de paris of april 14, 1789 as a counterpart to "menuet de la mariée" (1786). Subject: what: wedding feast, wedding mealpublic gardens, park. Credit line: purchase from the f. G. Waller fund. Acquisition: purchase 1962. Date: 1789.
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