aquatint/paper, approx. 37.8 x 46.3 cm (sheet)
Below the composition in the middle: Dessiné - Gravé par D...t / UN GOURMAND. / 1803
at bottom left: Déposé a la Bib.que N.ale
good state of preservation; paper restorations locally along the edges (not interfering with the composition)
Signature under the painting:
P. L. Debucourt, Signboard of a Parisian store, painted on wood, ca. 1801, 85 x 180 cm, Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.
Philibert Louis Debucourt, a French painter and engraver, made a signboard for a Parisian victualling store around 1801. The object survives and is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. The featured engraving repeats the composition from the signboard.
