L'Amour de la Patrie

L'Amour de la Patrie is a beautiful hand-watercolored lithograph on wire rod paper, realized by Jean-Baptiste Mallet .

A very interesting original print showing an allegorical subject matter, with the title engraved on the lower margin at the center below the oval etching, and with the inscriptions on plate " Beaurain del./ Mallet sculp. "   Under the title, the inscription on plate: " A Paris, chez Basset, M.d d'Estampes rue Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins. "

It is a print of an original artwork by  François Marie Beaurain (1768-18..) , published by the print merchant Paul-André Basset .

This original print is very similar to another in black and white called L'Amour exprime le Plaisir qu'on trouve à chérir la Patrie  realized by the same French artist.

In excellent conditions, except for a light discoloration on the last word of the inscription about the publishing house and some minor stains outside the oval engraving.

Jean-Baptiste Mallet  (Grasse, 1759 - Paris, 1835) was a French genre painter, pupil of Simon Julien in Toulon and then of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in Paris. Jean-Baptiste Mallet realized popular gouaches and watercolors, small yet meaningful: today these artworks are real chronologies of the Société du Directoire and of the First Empire.