Paris nanny or maid de Louis-Marie Lanté - [1816-27]: Les Ouvrieres de Paris

Plate 12. Paris Bonne

A nanny or maid to a respectable family. She wears her hair up in a black net, red shawl, long green dress and white apron.

One of a suite of elegant costumes of Parisian female workers and tradeswomen of the 1820s

It's likely that Lanté drew these women in the streets and stores of Paris as they went about their

According to Rene Colas, "This is one of the most interesting series drawn by Lanté."

Louis-Marie Lanté, 1789-1871, was a French painter, a pupil of Vaudoyer, and exhibited at the Salons from 1824 to 1838. He was the most prolific artist for Pierre de la Mésangère's famous Journal des Dames et des Modes for which he drew 1,466 fashion plates in watercolor from 1814 to 1829, many engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. He also drew suites of regional and historical costume plates including Costumes of Caux 1827, Costumes of Hamburg 1827, Galerie des Femmes 1827, etc. All his books are very rare.

Print mounted on blue card, print in very good condition with fine hand-colour.