La Pupille. Dedié à Monsigneur Camus de Pont Carré Premier President du Parlement de Normandie honnoriare sw l'Academie des sciences Belles Lettre et Arts, de Rouen. Par son très humble et très obeissance Serviteur Descamps.
J.B. Descamps pinxit. N. Le Mire Sculp.
A Paris chez le S.r Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy. Et a Rouen chez Descamps vis à vis St Amant. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with wide, uncut margin.
A scene from Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan's one-act comedy 'La Pupille', first performed 5th June 1734. As a clerk in the public service, Fagan (1702-55) appears to be drawing on personal experience. The original painting, by Jean-Baptiste Descamps (1714-91), is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.
[Ref: 21375] £240.00
A Paris chez le S.r Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy. Et a Rouen chez Descamps vis à vis St Amant. [n.d., c.1750.]
Engraving. 385 x 270mm (15¼ x 10¾"), with wide, uncut margin.
A scene from Barthélemy-Christophe Fagan's one-act comedy 'La Pupille', first performed 5th June 1734. As a clerk in the public service, Fagan (1702-55) appears to be drawing on personal experience. The original painting, by Jean-Baptiste Descamps (1714-91), is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen.
[Ref: 21375] £240.00