[Time uncovering painting] Le Tems decouvre la peinture.
Eisen inv. A Paris chez Basan [c.1760] Engraving, sheet 130 x 80mm (5 x 3¼"). Trimmed along platemark top and bottom; glued to album sheet at corners; ms inscription bottom right. Allegorical scene showing the virtues of painting revealed over time. Book illustration 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.
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Exstant hæc trium charitum Signa, naturali VI circiter pedum attitudine, eonspicua Bruxellæ in ædbus Comilum de Cuypers de Rymenam.
Carolus Eisen Aqua regali Sculp. 1777. Etching. 240 x 165mm. Statue of the Three Graces, by Charles Eisen, 1720-1778.
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