Cleveland Museum of Art
You May Count on Me
Augustin de Saint-Aubin
- Date
- 1789
- Medium
- etching and engraving
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This print is a companion to another depicting a woman telling her lover to "At Least be Discreet," as he slips out of her boudoir. Together the two prints depict a couple saying farewell after a romantic rendezvous. Here, both the man and the cherub beneath him proudly display a plucked rose as a symbol of sexual triumph. Amusingly, the prints actually depict the artist and his wife, whimsically portraying the mores and fashion of French aristocratic society during the 18th century.
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