c.1778
Etching and engraving
Inscription: Lettered with names of producers, title and French inscription describing the scene, bottom centre: LES DERNIERS PAROLES DE J.J. ROUSSEAU / Ma chere femme rendez moi le service d'ouvrir la fenetre afin que j'aie le bonheur de voir encor unfois la Verdure. Comme elle est belle! que ce jour est pur et serin! O que la Nature est est grande! / Voyez ce Soleil, dont il semble que l'aspect riant m'appelle: voyez voux-meme cette Lumiere immence, voila Dieu; oui, Dieu lui-meme qui m'ouvre son sien, et que m'invite enfin a aller gouter cette paix eternelle et inalterabile que j'avois tant desire ... / Mort le 2 Huillet 1778. Age de 66 Ans. a Ermenonville, distant de Paris de 8 Lieux. / A.P.D.R. / A Paris chez Vilquin M d'Estampe maison Egalite No. 191.
[The last words of J.J. Rousseau, “My dear wife, do me the favor of opening the window so that I may have the happiness of seeing the Verdure once more. She is so pretty ! How pure and serene is this day! O how great Nature is! / See this Sun, whose smiling aspect seems to call me: see for yourself this immense Light; here is God; yes, God himself who opens his bosom to me, and who finally invites me to go and taste this eternal and unalterable peace that I had so longed for..." / Died on July 2, 1778. Aged 66. in Ermenonville, distant from Paris by 8 Lieux]
Inscription: J. J. Rousseau [centrally placed, below the image, in a cloud]
Museum number: P371