The Kiss Returned
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| Caption | The woman's husband is about to kiss a fashionably dressed woman, while the stylishly dressed man stands by, at right. A g room at left. In landscape. Ornamented border. In an escutcheon, top center: "LE BAISER RENDU / par bonheur pour Guillot, notre galant Seigneur / Bien peu de jours après pour l'hymen fit empletter d'une Dame Charmante et d'agréable humeur / Riche, de noble race, enfin toute parfaite / Et malgré les honneurs d'un état florissant / Ce que n'est pas commun il fut reconnoissan." In escutcheon, bottom center: "Du baiser qui obtient le souvenir l'exite / a vouloir qu'aussitot Madame l'en acquite / De ce trait genereux le Manant en chanté / Et qui n'attendoit pas tant de fidelité, Secrie: "Ah que mal joye aurait été complette / Si Monsieur eut voulu avec Lizette." Bottom right: "A Paris chez Basset le jeune rue de Mathurins a S. Genevieve.". Made in: France. Date: 1780s. Record ID: chndm_1921-22-283. |
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| Creator | unknown |
| Artwork medium | Brush and watercolor on paper |
| Credit | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Kiss Returned woman husband kiss fashionably dressed stylishly man stands |
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| YCH007598 | 8,618 x 6,226 pixels | 240 |
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