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1744

Le Bénédicité (The Prayer before the Meal)

François Bernard Lépicié

French, 1698 - 1755

François-Bernard Lépicié's engravings after paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin were so widely collected in the eighteenth century that the painter profited more from the sale of the prints than from the paintings themselves.

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François Bernard Lépicié, Le Bénédicité (The Prayer before the Meal), 1744 | Philadelphia Art Museum