Antoine-Jean DUCLOS
1742 - 1795
The Queen Announcing to Mme de Bellegarde...That Her Husband is Set Free, May 1777
1779
Etching and engraving after Desfosses
375 × 485 mm, good margins
Fine impression, small thin spots in the lower margin and in the corners, short, repaired tear in the left border
Watermark: Letters AMP (?)
Reference: IFF 160
The Emperor Joseph II, at the time travelling through France under the name of Count of Falkenstein, was attending the event and is portrayed near Marie-Antoinette.