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Walk softly, talk softly (Marchez tout doux, parlez tout bas)

Pierre-Philippe Choffard

French, 1730–1809

After Pierre Antoine Baudouin, (French, 1723–1769)

Walk softly, talk softly (Marchez tout doux, parlez tout bas)

1782

Medium etching and engraving on laid paper
Dimensions Border: 15 3/16 x 10 13/16 in. (38.6 x 27.4 cm) image: 12 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.8 x 22.6 cm) sheet: 19 1/8 x 13 3/4 in. (48.5 x 35 cm)
Object Number 1955.2374
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Pierre-Philippe Choffard, Walk softly, talk softly (Marchez tout doux, parlez tout bas), 1782, etching and engraving on laid paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.2374

Select Bibliography

Emmanuel Bocher.. Pierre-Antoine Baudouin.. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles.. 1875.. Bibliothèque nationale (France) and François Courboin.. Cabinet des estampes. Armand Collection. Inventaire des dessins, photographies et gravures relatives a l'histoire générale de l'art.. 2 vol.. Lille: Impr. L. Danel.. 1895.. Emile Dacier.. La gravure française.. Paris: Larousse.. [1945].. Lawrence, Harry Walton, and B. L. Dighton. French Line Engravings of the late XVIII Century. London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, 1910.

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