Les Agremens De L'Este. Graves d'après le tableau Original peint par Watteau de la meme Grandeur.
Watteau Pinxit. Jaques de Favanes Sculp a Paris chez Gersaint M.d Pont N.D. Et chez Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers. Avec Privilege du Roy. Very fine engraving, platemark 260 x 330mm (10¼ x 13") with large margins. Very slight foxing. 'Summer Amusements', after Antoine Watteau ( 1684 - 1721): a group of figures in a glade, next to a fountain with putto riding a dolphin. Plate 131 to 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy', also known as the 'Recueil Jullienne' after Jean de Jullienne (1686 - 1766), a Parisian collector and patron of the arts who owned some 450 drawings by Watteau which he had engraved after the artist's early death. It was largely through this collection of engravings that Watteau's reputation was spread in the years following his death.
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