L'Amour de la Patrie is a beautiful hand-watercolored lithograph on wire rod paper, realized by Jean-Baptiste Mallet.

A very interesting original print showing an allegorical subject matter, with the title engraved on the lower margin at the center below the oval etching, and with the inscriptions on plate "Beaurain del./ Mallet sculp." Under the title, the inscription on plate: "A Paris, chez Basset, M.d d'Estampes rue Jacques, au coin de celle des Mathurins."

It is a print of an original artwork by François Marie Beaurain (1768-18..) , published by the print merchant Paul-André Basset.

This original print is very similar to another in black and white called L'Amour exprime le Plaisir qu'on trouve à chérir la Patrie realized by the same French artist.

In excellent conditions, except for a light discoloration on the last word of the inscription about the publishing house and some minor stains outside the oval engraving.

Jean-Baptiste Mallet (Grasse, 1759 - Paris, 1835) was a French genre painter, pupil of Simon Julien in Toulon and then of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in Paris. Jean-Baptiste Mallet realized popular gouaches and watercolors, small yet meaningful: today these artworks are real chronologies of the Société du Directoire and of the First Empire.
29 x 21