La Botanique

• Engraved by Charles Nicholas Cochin, French. After Jacques de la Joue
  Made in Paris
• Plate: 12.25 x 14.5 in.
  Engraving on laid paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.221
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

The Duke of Picquigny commissioned Charles Nicholas Cochin to engrave a series of allegories after paintings of Jacques de la Joue. This allegorical landscape shows a man lying on a pedestal with a woman nearby picking flowers.

Inscription

La Botanique.
Tiré du cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Picquigny.
Se vend à Paris ches la veuve de François Chereau graveur du Roy, rue St. Jacques aux deux Piliers d'Or.