Young Lady's Reply to the Captain's Letter

A man curled up in a chair looks toward another man who approaches him from the left in an interior setting, a woman and a man stand nearby with their hands raised, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, Claude Nicolas Malapeau

Captain's Love Letter

Abraham Bosse, François Langlois

A man leans toward a woman standing in a doorway at right, at left a seated woman raises both hands, a canopied bed beyond, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

After Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin, Claude Nicolas Malapeau

Frontispiece to Moliere's "L'Avare" (The Miser)

John Vandergucht, After William Hogarth, Related author Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière

Lafontaine Tales, Amsterdam

Joseph de Longueil

The New Metamorphosis, Plate 5: Fantasio, Transformed into a Lapdog, in the with Donna Theresa

William Hogarth, Related author Charles Gildon, Related author Lucius Madaurensis Apuleius

Gioanni, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

Jacques Callot

Le Général Burgoyne à Saratoga, le 17 Octobre, 1777; and Le Général Cornwallis à Yorck, le 19 Octobre, 1781

Anonymous, French, 18th century

The soldier kissing the woman's hand (from John Ogilby, "Aesopics or a Second Colllection of Fables," 1668)

Wenceslaus Hollar, Related author John Ogilby, Aesop

Joseph and His Mistress

Matthias Darly, Mary Darly

Accursio, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

Jacques Callot

L'Europe Allarmée

Romeyn de Hooghe