Mistress and Maid
Mistress and Maid

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Mistress and Maid

Francisque Poulbot, French, 1879–1946
2009-52

Information

Title
Mistress and Maid
Maker
Francisque Poulbot
Medium
Brush and black wash over blue colored pencil
Dimensions
32.2 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Object Number
2009-52
Signatures
Signed, lower left: Poulbot
Inscription
In ink, bottom: “Comme vous gaspillez l'argent Marie! Vous mettez une piece de cent sous dans le moules, ne pa[illegible] vous mettre une piece din sous.” In graphite and blue colored pencil, throughout: [notations] In blue, on verso center: 109 In red, on verso lower right (upside down): 332 [in circle]
Culture
French
Type
drawings
Materials
wash, wove paper
Subject
servants, figures (representations), cooking and heating devices, kitchens, women, chairs

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