Godefroy (Adrien Pierre François)

Napoleonic-era satire on the impact of tall, burly, Russian soldiers on the women of Paris, as a working woman and young serving girl melt into the arms of two cossacks in  the foreground, while a more aristocratic lady in long flowing dress and billowing shawl runs in terror from a third one in the background, with the artist’s monogram ‘AG’ in the lower left corner,

original hand-coloured engraving, 210 x 285 mm. (8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in), thread margins, laid on thin card support, slight surface dirt, [De Vinck 9261],