Dancing couples surround four standing women in a barrel-vaulted hall, 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

ca. 1784

Etching with engraving

16.2 × 10.1 cm (6.4 × 4 in)

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