A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo] Petit Kakatoes à hupe jaune.](jpegs/54753.jpg)
[Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo] Petit Kakatoes à hupe jaune.
Dessiné et gravé par Martinet.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Small stain on right top. Large margins on 3 sides.
A Sulphur Crested cockatoo, drawn by François-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800)
[Ref: 54753] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
Dessiné et gravé par Martinet.
[n.d., c.1760.]
Etching with fine hand colour. 265 x 215mm (10½ x 8½"). Small stain on right top. Large margins on 3 sides.
A Sulphur Crested cockatoo, drawn by François-Nicolas Martinet (1731-1800)
[Ref: 54753] £320.00 (£384.00 incl.VAT)
![[The Folly of the Age]](jpegs/44955.jpg)
[The Folly of the Age] La Folie du Siecle / Ce Chat que vous croyez soumis et caressant, / Vous égratignera peut-etre [...]
Peint par Eisen pere Gravé par Ang. Martinet F.me Dupuis
à Paris chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres.
Fine engraving, sheet 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with woman playing with a dressed-up cat. Verses explaining that while the woman mistakenly thinks the cat is submissive and obedient, it is in fact treacherous and inconstant, like a lover. 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. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44955] £520.00
Peint par Eisen pere Gravé par Ang. Martinet F.me Dupuis
à Paris chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres.
Fine engraving, sheet 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with woman playing with a dressed-up cat. Verses explaining that while the woman mistakenly thinks the cat is submissive and obedient, it is in fact treacherous and inconstant, like a lover. 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. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44955] £520.00
![[The Folly of the Age]](jpegs/44956.jpg)
[The Folly of the Age] La Folie du Siecle / De ce Singe que tu méprises / Ce jeune Fou paroit épriez [...]
Peint par Eisen pere Gravé par Ang. Martinet F.me Dupuis [c.1762]
à Paris chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres.
Fine engraving, sheet 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with woman playing with a dressed-up monkey. 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. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44956] £520.00
Peint par Eisen pere Gravé par Ang. Martinet F.me Dupuis [c.1762]
à Paris chés Buldet, rue de Gesvres.
Fine engraving, sheet 455 x 325mm (18 x 12¾"). Trimmed inside platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border with woman playing with a dressed-up monkey. 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. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44956] £520.00
![[A man playing a lute.]](jpegs/51290.jpg)
[A man playing a lute.]
Gravé par Martinet.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4") very large margins. Wear to edges of margins.
A bewigged man in a salon, playing a lute, a book of music on a desk to his side.
[Ref: 51290] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Gravé par Martinet.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4") very large margins. Wear to edges of margins.
A bewigged man in a salon, playing a lute, a book of music on a desk to his side.
[Ref: 51290] £120.00 (£144.00 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"), with 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"), with 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)
![[Virginie de Sainte-Aldegonde.] Le Premier Ami. The First Friend.](jpegs/47432.jpg)
[Virginie de Sainte-Aldegonde.] Le Premier Ami. The First Friend.
Peint par F. Winterhalter. Gravé par Alph.se Martinet.
London _ Published Feb.y 1844, by the Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berniers St, Oxf.d St. Paris _ Publié par Goupil & Vibert., Boulevart Montmartre 15, & rue de Lanery 7.
Rare photogravure. 440 x 490mm (17¼ x 19¼"), with large margins. Surface soiling, manuscript within plate mark, outside image area.
A portrait of the five-year old Virginie de Sainte-Aldegonde (1834-1900, the future Duchesse de Rochechouart-Mortemart) in a garden overlooking the sea, leaning on a huge hound, probably a Neapolitan mastiff.
The original painting is Winterhalter Catalogue, no 162.
[Ref: 47432] £360.00
Peint par F. Winterhalter. Gravé par Alph.se Martinet.
London _ Published Feb.y 1844, by the Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berniers St, Oxf.d St. Paris _ Publié par Goupil & Vibert., Boulevart Montmartre 15, & rue de Lanery 7.
Rare photogravure. 440 x 490mm (17¼ x 19¼"), with large margins. Surface soiling, manuscript within plate mark, outside image area.
A portrait of the five-year old Virginie de Sainte-Aldegonde (1834-1900, the future Duchesse de Rochechouart-Mortemart) in a garden overlooking the sea, leaning on a huge hound, probably a Neapolitan mastiff.
The original painting is Winterhalter Catalogue, no 162.
[Ref: 47432] £360.00
Themis. Fille du Ciel et de la Terre, elle etablie la Religion, et tout ce qui Maintient l'ordre et la Paix parmis les Hommes [...]
Martinet [after Charles Eisen?, c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Themis, ancient Greek Titaness and personification of natural order, fairness and law. Allegorical scene probably after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 44936] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Martinet [after Charles Eisen?, c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 145 x 90mm (5¾ x 3½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Themis, ancient Greek Titaness and personification of natural order, fairness and law. Allegorical scene probably after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 44936] £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)