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[Cupid and Lovers.]

[Cupid and Lovers.]Claudine envain fait la difficile,/ l'Amour qui sest emparé de son coeur,/ En rendra la conqueste tres facille,/ Et Pierrot sera tout le vainqueur.

[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving, 155 x 100mm. 6 x 4".
A scene from 'L’arbre enchanté, ou Le tuteur dupé' (The Magic Tree, or, the Tutor Duped), a story adapted by Jean-Joseph Vadé from Boccaccio's 'Decameron' The verse below tells how Claudine, the female, tries in vain to fend off Pierrot, the male, as Love 'will make the conquest very easy.'
From the Capper album.
[Ref: 11149]  £60.00


 

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