Pour nous prouver que cette belle
c. 1717 – 1718
Oil on pine panel with walnut strips
16.1 x 19.9 cm
Made up to, Object size: 18.6 x 23.7 cm
Wallace Collection, London

The verses which accompanied Surugue’s 1719 engraving of the picture explained:

To prove that this beauty
Finds the marriage knot sweet
The painter has shown her faithful
Following the music of her husband.
These children around her
Are the fruits of her tender love
Which this handsome student may well taste one day.