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![[David and Bathsheba]](jpegs/45142.jpg)
[David and Bathsheba] David de Bethsabée éprouve la puissance, / Ses atraits de sa foy triomphe sans effort [...]
Peint par J. Raoux Gravé par Chereau le jeune
Se vend à Paris chez Chereau le jeune aux Gobelins, et chez son frere, Graveur du Roi, rue St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'or [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"), with very large margins. Fine impression.
David's seduction of Bathsheba, as recounted in the 2 Samuel in the Bible. Verses below indicting David for the act, asserting that it cancelled out all of his positive achievements.
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45142] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Peint par J. Raoux Gravé par Chereau le jeune
Se vend à Paris chez Chereau le jeune aux Gobelins, et chez son frere, Graveur du Roi, rue St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'or [c.1750]
Engraving, platemark 290 x 370mm (11½ x 14½"), with very large margins. Fine impression.
David's seduction of Bathsheba, as recounted in the 2 Samuel in the Bible. Verses below indicting David for the act, asserting that it cancelled out all of his positive achievements.
From the Library of Pitsligo
[Ref: 45142] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)
Unhappy Bird! from this Maids hands to fly, / With a false show of Liberty you try; / The cruel Fair One wanton in your Pain, / Lets loose your Wings to draw you back again [...]
J. Raoux pinxit N. Dupuis junior sculpsit
Printed & Sold by John Tinney at the Golden Lion near the Globe Tavern in Fleet Street, London [c.1770]
Engraving, platemark 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Thread margins; slight crease.
Girl holding a piece of string which is attached to a bird's foot to prevent it from flying away. Text below explaining that this is a metaphor for 'the gay Coquett's weak lover', who likewise is unable to escape the 'Tyrant' who rules his heart. Engraved after Jean Raoux (1677-1734), French painter of fancy pictures.
[Ref: 40290] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
J. Raoux pinxit N. Dupuis junior sculpsit
Printed & Sold by John Tinney at the Golden Lion near the Globe Tavern in Fleet Street, London [c.1770]
Engraving, platemark 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"). Thread margins; slight crease.
Girl holding a piece of string which is attached to a bird's foot to prevent it from flying away. Text below explaining that this is a metaphor for 'the gay Coquett's weak lover', who likewise is unable to escape the 'Tyrant' who rules his heart. Engraved after Jean Raoux (1677-1734), French painter of fancy pictures.
[Ref: 40290] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)
Les Vestales.
Gravée d'après le Tableau Original de J. Raoux, Peintre du Roi, par P.H. Jonxis en 1784.
A Paris chez Mr. De Launay, Graveur, des Academies Royales de Paris et Coppenhagen, Rue de la Bucherie No. 26.
Engraving with large margins; platemark 475 x 355mm (18½ x 13¾").
Six vestal virgins prepare an offering before a statue of Vesta, goddess of fire. In ancient Roman religion, the Vestals were priestesses who cultivated the sacred fire which was not allowed to be extinguished. The vestals were the subject of many pictures in the eighteenth century, which offered painters a way to depict an ethereal female beauty. Engraved after Jean Raoux (1677-1734), French painter of fancy pictures, by the Dutch engraver P.H. Jonxis (1757-1843), who worked in Utrecht and Paris.
[Ref: 31866] £320.00
Gravée d'après le Tableau Original de J. Raoux, Peintre du Roi, par P.H. Jonxis en 1784.
A Paris chez Mr. De Launay, Graveur, des Academies Royales de Paris et Coppenhagen, Rue de la Bucherie No. 26.
Engraving with large margins; platemark 475 x 355mm (18½ x 13¾").
Six vestal virgins prepare an offering before a statue of Vesta, goddess of fire. In ancient Roman religion, the Vestals were priestesses who cultivated the sacred fire which was not allowed to be extinguished. The vestals were the subject of many pictures in the eighteenth century, which offered painters a way to depict an ethereal female beauty. Engraved after Jean Raoux (1677-1734), French painter of fancy pictures, by the Dutch engraver P.H. Jonxis (1757-1843), who worked in Utrecht and Paris.
[Ref: 31866] £320.00