Prostitutes Being Led Off to La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris

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Prostitutes Being Led Off to La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris

1771

Jean Charles Levasseur (French, 1734–1816) After a painting of 1757 by Étienne Jeaurat (French, 1699–1789) Published by Le Vasseur, rue des Mathurins

By the 1750s, Étienne Jeaurat, a successful painter of mythological subjects at the Royal Academy, had come to specialize in scenes of everyday life in Paris. In this engraving after a painting exhibited by Jeaurat in the 1757 Salon, a wagon of prostitutes accompanied by soldiers is led to La Salpêtrière hospital on the outskirts of Paris, where they are to be incarcerated in the facility's prison quarters. The covered wagon passing under the arch at left was used to transport women who paid to have their identities protected.

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Object Details

Titles:

Prostitutes Being Led Off to La Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris
Le Transport des filles de joye á l'hopital

Date:

1771

Artists:

Jean Charles Levasseur (French, 1734–1816) After a painting of 1757 by Étienne Jeaurat (French, 1699–1789) Published by Le Vasseur, rue des Mathurins

Medium:

Etching and engraving

Dimensions:

Sheet: 17 1/8 x 19 11/16 inches (43.5 x 50 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-37908

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

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