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Diane & Endymion
Diane & Endymion Gravés d'après le Dessein original de Ch. Eisen Peintre et Dessinateur du Roi.
Car. Eisen del. P.F. Tardieu Sculp. [c.1760]
Fine engraving, sheet 280 x 315mm (11 x 12½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners. Slight fox mark left corner.
The shepherd Endymion, renowned for his beauty, sent to sleep by the goddess Diana, so that she might embrace him unobserved. 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: 44937]   £380.00  
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Le Rocher Dangereux.
Le Rocher Dangereux. Gravé d'après le Tableau peint par F. Vernet, de deux pieds et demi de large sur un pied huit pouces de baur.
F. Vernet Pinx. P.F.Tardieu Sculp.
et se Vend à Paris Chez Cochin, aux Galeries du Louvre. [n.d., 1790.]
Engraving. Sheet 450 x 615mm (13½ x 24¼"). Small margins.
Boats struggling in a storm, beneath a cliff with a castle on top.
[Ref: 43452]   £420.00  
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[Les Vivandiers Pair.]
[Les Vivandiers Pair.]
Ch. Eisen inv. et del. / P.F. Tardieu Sculp
A Paris chés Tardieu Graveur du Roy, rue du Platre, la deuxieme porte cochere, a gauche entrant par la rue St. Jacques Avec Privilege du Roy [c.1770]
A pair of fine engravings, each sheet 210 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A pair of engravings the first showing a group of vivandiers, merchants who accompany the army to sell provisions to the soldiers. 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: 45102]   £480.00   view all images for this item
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