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Le Contretemps.  Grave d'apres le Dessin Original de meme grandeur.  N 92.
Le Contretemps. Grave d'apres le Dessin Original de meme grandeur. N 92.
Peint a la Gouache par Lavreince. Grave par Dequevauviller.
A Paris chez Leloutre [n.d., c.1775.]
Engraving, sheet 385 x 290mm. Trimmed unevenly to plate. Extreme lower left corner missing. Light foxing outside image.
An interloper is caught spying on a woman as she is about to administer treatment (probably for haemorrhoids) to a woman's bottom with the aid of a large syringe. Engraved by Francois Dequevauviller (1745 - 1807), one of the best pupils of Jean Daulle. The artist Nicolas Lavreince was a Swedish miniature painter who trained and worked in Paris until the onset of the Revolution.
[Ref: 7349]   £520.00  
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Ecole De Danse.
Ecole De Danse.
Peint a la Gouache par N. Lavreince peintre du Roi de Suede et de l'Academie Royale de Stockholm. Grave par F. Dequevauviller.
Avec Privilege du Roi. [n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, 345 x 410mm. Foxing to wide margins, only lightly to plate.
A woman dances within a panelled room to the accompanyment of a boy playing his violin. The engraver is Francois Dequevauviller (1745 - 1807). The artist Nicolas Lavreince was a Swedish miniature painter who trained and worked in Paris until the onset of the Revolution.
[Ref: 7352]   £500.00  
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Portrait de Nicolas Kratzer Astronome.
Portrait de Nicolas Kratzer Astronome.
Peint par Holbein (Jean) Dessiné par Anastasi. Gravé par Dequevauvillers.
[n.d., c.1800]
Engraving, 290 x 205mm. 11½ x 8". Mount burn.
Portrait of Nicolas Kratzer (1487?- 1550), a German astronomer, horologist and mathematician who after being introduced to court life by Thomas More, became court astronomer to Henry VIII. Engraved by Francois Dequevauviller (1745-1807) after the 1528 portrait by Kratzer's friend Holbein, now in the Louvre. A copy of this portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
[Ref: 16114]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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