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On doit à sa Patrie le sacrifice de ses plus chères affections.
On doit à sa Patrie le sacrifice de ses plus chères affections.
Dessine par Dutailly. Gravé par Coqueret.
[n.d., c.1795.]
Scarce aquatint and engraving, printed in colours. Sheet 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Trimmed within plate, some restoration.
A scene of a father restraining his daughter as her cavalryman husband leaves for war, with a suitably patriotic title.
[Ref: 61481]   £380.00  
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J. De La Fontaine.
J. De La Fontaine. Peint par son ami Rigaud. Dedie a Monsieu Ginguene, Membre de l'Institut de France des Academies de Turin, de Florence, &c.
Pointeau delt. Coqueret Sct.
A Paris, chez l'Auteur, Rue des Fosses St. Jacques, No.3 [n.d., c.1820]. Depose a la Direction Royale de l'Imprimerie.
Coloured soft ground etching, 400 x 320mm. 15¾ x 12½". Tear from right along platemark.
Jean de la Fontaine (1621 - 1695) was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. According to Flaubert, he was the only French poet to understand and master the texture of the French language before Hugo. Pierre Charles Coqueret (1761 - 1832 c.). Engraver: aquatint and crayon-manner; active in Paris. Trained by Janinet (q.v.). Works exhibited at the Salon, 1789-1810.
[Ref: 9030]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Vue de Paris, No.6. Vue du Pont Neuf, prise du Pont des Arts.
Vue de Paris, No.6. Vue du Pont Neuf, prise du Pont des Arts.
Garbizza del. Coqueret Sculp.
Chez Potrelle, Rue St. Honoré, No.142. Et présentement chez Basset, rue St. Jacques, No.64. Déposé à la Bibliothèque Impériale.
Aquatint, very rare. Sheet 390 x 535mm, 15½ x 21". Trimmed inside plate mark, image cut at top
Angelo Garbizza (1777-1813).
[Ref: 27900]   £320.00  
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