Favorite lamb. 1771.

After the original by P. J. Loutherbourg.
Engraving. 308 x 365.
Under the image, on the left: P.J. de Loutherboug pinxit; on the right: J.J. Leveau sculpt.; in the center: L’AGNEAU CHÉRI. A Monsieur de Loutherbourg Peintre du Roi et de son Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture, associé de celle de Marseille & c. Par ses très humbles serviteurs Le Veau et Le Fort; below, on the left: Tire de la Collection des ouvrages de m. de Loutherbourg belonging to m. Foulquier à Toulouse; on the right: A Paris: chés J. Fr. Chereau, fils, rue St Jacques près les Mathurins.
The canvas of P. J. Loutherbourg, as indicated in the signature under the engraving, belonged to Joseph-François Foulquier (1744-1789) – an adviser of the Parliament of Toulouse, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, a collector of paintings, intendant of the island Martinique (1786-1789).
Inv. G 453.
Literature: Le Blanc, t. 2, p. 548, No. 26; Hédou J. J.-J.-A. LeVeau, sa vie et son oeuvre (1729-1786) / Jules Hédou. – Paris, 1903, p.88, № 31.

Loutherbourg, Philippe Jacob (1740, Strasbourg – 1812, Chiswick, London) – French and English artist and graphic artist.

Chéreau, Jacques-François (1742–1794) – editor, was the son of François II Chéreau and grandson of François I Chéreau. After his father's death, he owned the family business with his mother Marguerite Chéreau and later on independently. In 1787, Jacques-François Chéreau retired from the trade. His collection of tens of thousands of plates and engravings was sold to the Lyon engraver François Étienne Joubert (?–1850)