Les Contemporaines par-gradation: ou avantures des jolies-femmes de l'âge actuel, suivant la gradation des principaux états de la société
Louis Binet
(French, 1744–about 1800)
Pierre-Charles Baquoy
(1759–1829)
E. A. Giraud l'ainé
(French, 18th century)
Antoine Cosme Giraud
(French, 1760–after 1796)
Jean Louis Charles Pauquet
(French, 1759–about 1824)
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
(French, 1734–1806)
Nicolas Bonaventure Duchesne
(French, died in 1765)
1783–85
Place of PublicationParis, France
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 83 etching and engravings
DimensionsOverall (each vol., depth variable): 17.2 x 10.5 x 5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession number37.1665a-f
On View
Not on viewClassificationsIllustrated books
Collections
"Leïpsick, par Büschel," and Paris: ve. Duchesne, et al., 1783[-1785]
ProvenanceIsidore Deschamps (bookplate); acquired in 1914, probably at C.F. Libby & Co. auction, New York [Dec. 1914], by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.