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L'Amour Maternelle.
L'Amour Maternelle. Dédiée à Madame Elisabeth Gouël de Villebrune femme de Monsieur de Peters Peintre de S.M. le Roy de Dannemarck et de S.A.R. le Prince Charle Duc de Lorraine Gouverneur des Pais-Bas Grand Maître de l'Ordre Teutonique. Par son tres Humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Chevillet.
Peint par de Peters. Gravé par Chevillet.
AParis chéz Chevillet Graveur ruë des Macons Maison de M. Freville. [n.d. c.1780.]
Engraving with small margins. Plate 440 x 330mm (17¼ x 13").
A woman breast feeding her baby; the child holds an ornate rattle; within trompe l'oeil stone window.
[Ref: 30455]   £330.00  
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Image de la Beauté. [&] Leçon de Botanique.
Image de la Beauté. [&] Leçon de Botanique.
Schenau p. Chevillet f.
[A Paris : chez Wille] [n.d., c.1772.]
Pair of etchings, scarce scratch letter proofs before titles. Each 425 x 310mm (16¾ x 12¼"). Framed. Unexamined out of frames.
A pair of scenes of two finely-dressed mothers and their daughters framed by stone archways. In 'Beauté' the girl picks a bloom off a potted rose, a set of bagpipes on the window sill; in 'Botanique' the mother holds up a plant she has uprooted from an ornamental pot. Engraved by Juste Chevillet (1729-1802) after Johann Eleazar Schenau (1736-1806)
[Ref: 28309]   £850.00   view all images for this item
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[The charitable cook]
[The charitable cook] La cuisinière charitable. / Oui, tu fais bien, Fanchon, d'aider ces Malheureux; Mais le Curé ton maitre est, fort peu généreux [...]
C. Eisen Inv. Chevilet Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x 280mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A kindly woman pours soup for a vagrant; verses by Moraine below. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45067]   £550.00  
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[The good-humoured old woman]
[The good-humoured old woman] La vieille de bonne humeur / Loin du bel age ou régne Amour et ses desirs, / L'antique Alix se le rappele [...]
C. Eisen inv. et del C. Chevilet Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x 275mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
An old woman drinks with a young couple, remembering her youth and 'believing it renewed'. Verses by Moraine below. Engraving after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45068]   £470.00  
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Le Charme de la Musique.
Le Charme de la Musique. D'Après le Tableau Original qui est dans le Cabinet de M. De Damery, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal Militaire de S. Louis.
Peint par de la Hyre. Gravé par Chevillet.
A Paris chez Wille, Graveur du Roi, Quai des Augustines.
Engraving. 420 x 310mm (16½ x 12¼") A little surface wear on edges, faint crease.
A woman playing a lute, sheet music on the table before her. Probably after Laurent de la Hyre (1606-58).
[Ref: 55717]   £360.00  
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