Le Chirurgien De Campagne.Dedie a Monseigneur le Marquis d'Argenson Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat. Grave d'apres le Tableau Original de David Teniers, Par son tres humble et tres Obeissant Serviteur Tho. Major.
D. Teniers pinx. T. Major Sculp. 1747.
A Paris chez l'Auteur rue St. Jacques vis-a-vis les Charniers de S. Benoist [c.1750].
Fine copper engraving with small margins, fine impression, 370 x 490mm. 14½ x 19¼". A few spots of foxing.
A 'country surgeon' tends to the wounded foot of a peasant. His doctor's surgery contains in addition to the usual knives and tools of his trade a stuffed reptile suspended from the ceiling, and a monkey at the window uper right. After the 1678 painting by David Teniers the Younger (1610 - 1690).
[Ref: 26933] £480.00
A Paris chez l'Auteur rue St. Jacques vis-a-vis les Charniers de S. Benoist [c.1750].
Fine copper engraving with small margins, fine impression, 370 x 490mm. 14½ x 19¼". A few spots of foxing.
A 'country surgeon' tends to the wounded foot of a peasant. His doctor's surgery contains in addition to the usual knives and tools of his trade a stuffed reptile suspended from the ceiling, and a monkey at the window uper right. After the 1678 painting by David Teniers the Younger (1610 - 1690).
[Ref: 26933] £480.00