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Le Desir de Plaire (Desire to Please)

After Claude-Marie Dubufe French
1820–35
Not on view
This half-length portrayal of a young woman wearing a white gown with a pointed bodice and short puffed sleeves is based on a painting by Dubufe titled "Admiring the New Necklace." The figure's hair is dressed in large curls and she admires herself in an oval hand mirror while holding up a long necklace draped around her shoulders, her elbow resting on a fur-trimmed cloth. The style of the dress suggests a date after 1820.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Le Desir de Plaire (Desire to Please)
  • Engraver: Samuel William Reynolds, the elder (British, London 1773–1835 London)
  • Artist: After Claude-Marie Dubufe (French, Paris 1790–1864 La Celle-Saint-Cloud)
  • Date: 1820–35
  • Medium: Mezzotint
  • Dimensions: Plate: 14 13/16 × 10 1/8 in. (37.7 × 25.7 cm)
    Sheet: 16 15/16 × 12 11/16 in. (43 × 32.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Julia J. Fitzgerald, 1963
  • Object Number: 63.634.34
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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