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Le Dedomagement de l'Absence.
Le Dedomagement de l'Absence. Quel que soit le motif qui cause ton absence...[etc.]
Schenau Peintre de S.A.E. de Saxe. Grave par Vidal 1770.
A Paris chez J. Francois Chereau, rue St. Jacques, aux 2, Piliers d'Or, Et ches l'Auteur rue St. Hyacinthe, au dessus de la Place St. Michel, maison d'un Foureur [c.1770].
Etching and engraving, 500 x 360mm. 19¾ x 14¼".
A lady receives a letter from her absent husband at her dressing table; her two children to left. A statuette of cupid drawing his bow stands on the mantlepiece behind her. After Johann Eleazar Schenau (1737 - 1806), painter and etcher born in Saxony who trained in Dresden, went to Paris 1756-70. He returned to Dresden as a member of the Academy, professor there in 1774. Director of the Meissen drawing school together with G B Casanova 1776, on his own from 1795.
[Ref: 10285]   £380.00  
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Télémague, arrivant a la Cour de Sparte, Déplore, en Présence de Ménélas et d'Hélene, les Malheurs de son Pere Ulisse.
Télémague, arrivant a la Cour de Sparte, Déplore, en Présence de Ménélas et d'Hélene, les Malheurs de son Pere Ulisse.
Angelica Kauffman ex acad.a Regoli Art.rn Londini Pinx.t. D'aprés Guli.s Wynne Ryland Chalcog.s Regis Britain.ae.
A Paris chez Vidal, graveur, rue des Noyers N.º 29 [n.d., c.1780].
Stipple with etching, printed in red-brown. 300 x 350mm (11¾ x 13¾"). Nicks in edges.
A scene from Homer's Odyssey, in which Odysseus' son Telemachus visits Menelaus and Helen hoping to hear news of his father. A reversed copy of Ryland's print, engraved by Gerard Vidal.
[Ref: 69482]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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