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![[Scene from 'Le déserteur']](jpegs/43763.jpg)
[Scene from 'Le déserteur'] Alexis. Adieu, chère Louise, adieu, Ma vie étoit à toi....je la perds, vis heureuse [...]
à Augsbourg chès J.J. Haid et fils [c.1780]
Rare mezzotint, platemark 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 11¾"), with very large margins.
Scene from 'le déserteur', an opéra comique by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Michel-Jean Sedaine first performed in 1769. Copied from an engraving by A.-B. Duhamel after François Marie Isidore Queverdo, this print was published by the Augsburg-based Haid family, who mainly produced mezzotints copied from earlier prints.
[Ref: 43763] £320.00
à Augsbourg chès J.J. Haid et fils [c.1780]
Rare mezzotint, platemark 415 x 300mm (16¼ x 11¾"), with very large margins.
Scene from 'le déserteur', an opéra comique by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Michel-Jean Sedaine first performed in 1769. Copied from an engraving by A.-B. Duhamel after François Marie Isidore Queverdo, this print was published by the Augsburg-based Haid family, who mainly produced mezzotints copied from earlier prints.
[Ref: 43763] £320.00
![[Le roi et le fermier.] Trio Betisy.](jpegs/53651.jpg)
[Le roi et le fermier.] Trio Betisy.
Frussote sculp [after F.M.I. Quéverdo.]
[Paris: F.N. Martinet, c.1763.]
Etching. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins.
One of six plates illustrating 'Le roi et le fermier', a 1762 opéra-comique in 3 acts by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine. Here Betsy (mis-engraved as 'Betisy' in the title), her sister Jenny and her mother sing a trio while stitching and spinning.
[Ref: 53651] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Frussote sculp [after F.M.I. Quéverdo.]
[Paris: F.N. Martinet, c.1763.]
Etching. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins.
One of six plates illustrating 'Le roi et le fermier', a 1762 opéra-comique in 3 acts by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny to a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine. Here Betsy (mis-engraved as 'Betisy' in the title), her sister Jenny and her mother sing a trio while stitching and spinning.
[Ref: 53651] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
![[Le maréchal ferrant] Jannette.](jpegs/53644.jpg)
[Le maréchal ferrant] Jannette. ''Colin, Colin, J'ai leau l'appeller, il ne me respond point... il est mort...''
[Engraved by Marie Thérèse Martinet after François Marie Isidore Queverdo.]
[Paris: Claude Jan-Baptiste Héissant, 1765.]
Etching. 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼") large margins.
Jeannette, daughter of the Blacksmith of the title, finds Colin slumped across a table asleep after a drinking a potion and thinks him dead. One of six plates in an edition of 'Le maréchal ferrant', a comic opera by François-André Danican Philidor and Antoine-François Quétant, based on one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. The opera was first performed in 1761, including a staging before Louis XV.
[Ref: 53644] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
[Engraved by Marie Thérèse Martinet after François Marie Isidore Queverdo.]
[Paris: Claude Jan-Baptiste Héissant, 1765.]
Etching. 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼") large margins.
Jeannette, daughter of the Blacksmith of the title, finds Colin slumped across a table asleep after a drinking a potion and thinks him dead. One of six plates in an edition of 'Le maréchal ferrant', a comic opera by François-André Danican Philidor and Antoine-François Quétant, based on one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. The opera was first performed in 1761, including a staging before Louis XV.
[Ref: 53644] £70.00 (£84.00 incl.VAT)
![[Le maréchal ferrant] Chantant a plein gorge.](jpegs/53645.jpg)
[Le maréchal ferrant] Chantant a plein gorge. Dedié à Mr de la Ferté Indendant et Controller Général de l'Argentrie, munus plaisirs et affaires de sa Majesté. Par son très Humble et très Obeissant Serviteur Martinet.
Queverdo del. Therese Martinet 1767.
[Paris: Claude Jan-Baptiste Héissant, 1765.]
Etching. 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼") with large margins
Marcel, the Blacksmith of the title, sings as he hammers a horseshoe. The first scene of 'Le maréchal ferrant', a comic opera by François-André Danican Philidor and Antoine-François Quétant, based on one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. The opera was first performed in 1761, including a staging before Louis XV. This illustrated edition had six plates engraved by Marie Thérèse Martinet after François Marie Isidore Queverdo.
[Ref: 53645] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Queverdo del. Therese Martinet 1767.
[Paris: Claude Jan-Baptiste Héissant, 1765.]
Etching. 220 x 135mm (8½ x 5¼") with large margins
Marcel, the Blacksmith of the title, sings as he hammers a horseshoe. The first scene of 'Le maréchal ferrant', a comic opera by François-André Danican Philidor and Antoine-François Quétant, based on one of the stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. The opera was first performed in 1761, including a staging before Louis XV. This illustrated edition had six plates engraved by Marie Thérèse Martinet after François Marie Isidore Queverdo.
[Ref: 53645] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
![[France] Madame La Marquise de Pompadour.](jpegs/14042.jpg)
[France] Madame La Marquise de Pompadour.
Queverdo del. Le Beau Sculp.
[Paris, c.1780.]
Etching, sheet 160 x 105mm. 6¼ x 4¼". Trimmed within plate.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764), bust-length to front within ornamental oval frame. She was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of Louis XV from 1745 to 1750.
[Ref: 14042] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Queverdo del. Le Beau Sculp.
[Paris, c.1780.]
Etching, sheet 160 x 105mm. 6¼ x 4¼". Trimmed within plate.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764), bust-length to front within ornamental oval frame. She was the official maîtresse-en-titre (mistress) of Louis XV from 1745 to 1750.
[Ref: 14042] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
![[Le Tourment de l'Absence.] O ma tant douce Coombelle.](jpegs/53652.jpg)
[Le Tourment de l'Absence.] O ma tant douce Coombelle.
Martinet [after F.M.I. Quéverdo.]
[Paris: F.N. Martinet, c.1763.]
Etching. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins.
A man playing a lute serenading a young woman as an older lady looks on. An illustration of 'Le Tourment de l'Absence', a song with music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and words by Michel-Jean Sedaine.
[Ref: 53652] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Martinet [after F.M.I. Quéverdo.]
[Paris: F.N. Martinet, c.1763.]
Etching. 180 x 115mm (7 x 4½"), with large margins.
A man playing a lute serenading a young woman as an older lady looks on. An illustration of 'Le Tourment de l'Absence', a song with music by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and words by Michel-Jean Sedaine.
[Ref: 53652] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)