78 JEAN­MICHEL MOREAU THE YOUNGER French, 1741­1814 "Have No Fear, My Good Friend!" Pen and gray ink and brown wash 26.7 x 21.6 cm (10½ x 8½ in.) Cat. I, no. 81;85.GG.416 The drawing was engraved in the Monument du costume (1776), a series of prints that illustrate the life of a woman of society and intended to represent fashionable life of the time. The heroine, Cephise, reclines on a settee, apprehensive about her impending first confinement. The following snippet of conversation between her and the marquise (the earnest­looking woman seated in front of her) and the abbe (the man standing to the left with a somewhat haughty expression), taken from the text accompanying the prints, sets the scene: "The moment it [the birth] is over, you won't give it a thought... I have had four children and am none the worse for it." The title of the composition is their exhortation to Cephise; the title of the next composition in the series, "It's a boy, sir" (the announcement of the happy news to the husband), settles their point. The artist has signed and dated the work in the lower left corner: JM moreau le jeune. 1775. 94 FRENCH SCHOOL