2-713-969 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Reading', c1778, (1943). The subjects are Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837), the artist's sister-in-law, and his wife Marie-Anne Gérard (1745-1823), who was a painter in her own right. Drawing in the Louvre Museum, Paris. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]