a Paris ches Daumont rue St Martin [originally c.1760, this impression perhaps a little later].
Etching, coarse bluish laid paper, 145 x 105mm. 5¾ x 4¼". A good impression with full margins.
Portrait of Molière (actor/entertainer; author/poet; French; Male; 1622 - 1673) actor and playwright; b. Jean Baptiste Poquelin, stage name Molière, which he took c.1644; author of satirical plays. Lettered to oval frame, and with verse tribute to pedestal below.
[Ref: 24056]  £75.00