The figures of a mother feeding her baby with its pair P466, showing a mother teaching her daughter to read are taken from larger paintings by the artist: 'The Good Household' of c.1774, engraved by Longueil in 1788, and 'The Carpenter's Workshop', exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1775 and engraved by Le Bas (both untraced). These two pendants appear to have been painted for Le Bas who engraved them under the titles 'Le devoir maternel' ('Maternal Duty') and 'L'education commencée' ('Education Begun'). The themes of maternal duty and a child's education reinforce traditional family roles, which eighteenth-century reformers such as Rousseau saw as essential to the moral well-being of the nation. Pendant to P466.