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La Fontaine Enchantée de la Verité d'Amour. Dédiée à Monsieur Alexandre Roslin, Chevalier de l'Ordre Royal [...]
Dessiné par C.N. Cochin, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Michel / Gravé a l'Eau forte par Aug. de St Aubin, et terminé au Burin par C.F. Macret
a Paris chez Demonchy Graveur Cloitre St. Benoit la 1.re porte cochere à gauche par la rue des Mathurins A.P.D.R.
Engraving, sheet 315 x 380mm (12½ x 15"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to backing sheet.
Illustration to Honoré d'Urfé's prose romance 'Astrée': Celadon, Silvandre, Astrée and Diane, followed by two unicorns, approach the enchanted fountain of the truth of love, which is protected by two lions.
[Ref: 38615] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[The old prosecutor] Le Procureur antique. / Ce rusé Procureur assis à son bureau, / De meme que le Chat, enclin à la rapine [...]
F. Eisen Pere pinx. C.F. Macret sculp.
A Paris chez Mr. Alliamet Graveur du Roi, rue des Mathurins vis à vis celle des Maçons; Et chez L'Auteur rue Gallande vis à vis celle des Rats, chez un Horloger [c.1763]
Fine engraving, platemark 315 x 255mm (12½ x 10"). Trimmed to platemark top and bottom; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with a wiley old prosecutor (and his equally rapacious cat) trying to think of new ways to ruin impoverished defendants. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pere' [father] on this print.
[Ref: 44950] £550.00
[Peasant] Le Paysan solliciteur. / Au suppot de Thèmis, Guillot porte un Chapon, / Croisant par ce moyen qu'il gangera sa cause [...]
F. Eisen Pere pinx. C.F. Macret sculp.
A Paris chez Mr. Alliamet Graveur du Roi, rue des Mathurins vis à vis celle des Maçons; Et chez L'Auteur rue Gallande vis à vis celle des Rats, chez un Horloger [c.1763]
Engraving, platemark 315 x 255mm (12½ x 10"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners. '1:4' inscription in ms lower right.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with a peasant and verses below. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pere' [father] on this print.
[Ref: 44951] £520.00
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