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Les Amusements de la Vie Privée.
Les Amusements de la Vie Privée. Dedié a Madame La Comtess de Tessin Sènatrice de Suede.
Peint par J.B.S. Chardin en 1746. L. Surugue Sculpsit 1747.
a Paris chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy, rue des Noyers attenant le Magazin de papier vis-avis S.t Yves. A.P.D.R.
Etching with engraving. 375 x 270mm (14¾ x 10¾"). Narrow margins.
A woman sits in a room, bare except for a spinning wheel and a corner cabinet, a book on her lap. Chardin's painting, 'Domestic Pleasures', was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1747 and is now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
[Ref: 61435]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Don Quichotte fait demander par Sancho ala Duchesse la permision de la voir.
Don Quichotte fait demander par Sancho ala Duchesse la permision de la voir.
Car. Coypel pinxit. L. Surugue Sc. 1723.
a Paris chez Surugue au bas de la Montagne Ste Genevieve, avec privilege du Roi.
Engraving, 315 x 305mm. 12½ x 12".
A forest, with, in the centre foreground, Sancho Panza addressing an elegant woman on horseback whilst pointing at Don Quijote, who stands in the background. From a series of prints after Charles Coypel (1694 - 1752) illustrating Miguel de Cervantes's 'Don Quijote de la Mancha'. The gentleman, Don Quijote (representing idealism), and his companion, the peasant, Sancho Panza (representing realism), embark on a series of adventures together. Published in Paris by Louis Surugue (c.1686 - 1762).
[Ref: 11853]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Don Quichotte est servi par les demoiselles de la Duchesse.
Don Quichotte est servi par les demoiselles de la Duchesse. Tom.3. Chap.31.
Car. Coypel pinxit. L. Surugue Sc. 1724.
Se vend a Paris chez Surugue au bas de la Montagne Ste. Genevieve avec Privilege du Roi.
Engraving, 330 x 345mm. 13 x 13½".
Elegant interior, with young women dressing Don Quijote with sash and cloak while at left, Sancho Panza bows before two women, with his hat to his chest. From a series of prints after Charles Coypel (1694 - 1752) illustrating Miguel de Cervantes's 'Don Quijote de la Mancha'. The gentleman, Don Quijote (representing idealism), and his companion, the peasant, Sancho Panza (representing realism), embark on a series of adventures together. Published in Paris by Louis Surugue (c.1686 - 1762).
[Ref: 11858]   £95.00   (£114.00 incl.VAT)
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[Twenty-one illustrations to 'Don Quixote'.]
[Twenty-one illustrations to 'Don Quixote'.]
[Louis Surugue and others after Charles Coypel, published by Surugue 1723-36]
Very fine impressions. Platemarks approx. 325 x 305mm (12¾ x 12"), with large margins. Uncut.
Twenty-one plates from a set of twenty-five engravings derived from Charles-Antonie Coypel's (1694-1752) first major commission: a series of tapestry cartoons illustrating scenes from Cervantes' 'Don Quixote' (Compiègne, musée Antoine Vivenel). These prints reproducing the designs were published by Louis Suruge at various points between 1723 and 1736, and were copied several times by other engravers.
Provenance: Library of Pitsligo. For individual plates from the set see refs. 11853, 11856 and 11858.
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La Folie pare la Décrépitude des ajustemens de la Jeunesse.
La Folie pare la Décrépitude des ajustemens de la Jeunesse.
Peint au Pastel par Ch. Coypel Gravé par L. Surugue en 1745
a Paris chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy rue des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves A.P.D.R.
Engraving, platemark 370 x 270mm (14½ x 10½"). Thread margins; pinholes.
Decrepitude, assisted by Madness, dresses in an extravagant costume with outsized beauty spots; cupid with arrow overhead. Allegorical scene after Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752), son of a successful painter who enjoyed early success, inheriting his father's position of painter to Philippe II, duc d'Orléans and becoming favourite painter of Louis XV's queen, Maria Leczinska. Coypel's moralizing genre scenes such as the pastel from which this print derives, are some of his most original works.
[Ref: 40283]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Guillrlmi III Libertatis Angliæ Vindicis Memoriæ Immortali.
Guillrlmi III Libertatis Angliæ Vindicis Memoriæ Immortali.
F.Boucher invenit et delin. L.Surugue Sculpsit.
Mac.S. [Paris: Basan, c.1737.]
Engraving. 650 x 420mm, 25½ x 16½". Tears to margins, creased, some staining.
An allegorical monument to William III, with putti, a lion and unicorn. From Eugene Mac-Swiny's 'Tombeaux des Princes, Grand Capitaines et Autres Hommes Illustres, Qui ont fleuri dans la Grande-Bretagne'. Owen McSwiny, former manager of Drury Lane and the Haymarket Theatres, had travelled to Italy where he bought works of Italian painters, including Canaletto, to sell to English collectors. He also planned a series of historical pictures to decorate the Duke of Richmond's apartment at Goodwood, commemorating the deeds of famous Englishmen.
[Ref: 10612]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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