The Evening Walk, Etching, 1774

The evening walk
Francois Robert Ingouf
Sigismund Freudeberg
Eau Forte
1774

The evening walk.
Young Beauties who are fleeing slavery,
You can listen to seductive words:
But from a bouquet do not accept the homage,
Often Love is hidden in the flowers.

Similar example in the Louvre collections,
from the Collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild.

Size: 36 x 26 cm
Frame size: 45 x 33.5 cm

Francois-Robert Ingouf (1747-1812)
Born in Paris, like his younger brother Pierre-Charles, he was a student of Flippart and took a distinguished place among the engravers of the 18th century century. He engraved after Raphael, Gérard, Dow, Ribera, Douais and Freudeberger. He supplied plates for the French Museum and executed a large number of portraits. He also exhibited at the Salon of 1793 and had connections in Spain, in fact he was a member of the academies of Madrid and Valencia.

Sigismund Freudeberg or Freudenberger (1745-1801)
Painter and engraver born in Bern, after working in Basel with Emmanuel Handmann he came to Paris. For eight years he studied the customs and types of Parisian life, following the advice of Wille, Greuze, Boucher and Roslin. Freudenberger retired to Switzerland in 1773 and specialized in the representation of intimate, genre scenes in the manner of Lancret and Boucher, as well as Swiss landscapes in oil and pastel. The Bern museum preserves a portrait of the future Louis XVIII. He is admired for his history of French customs and costumes in the 18th century.