La Jeunesse.L'Ardente et fougueuse jeunesse / Le met encore en pire état. / Des Créanciers, une Maitresse, / Le tourmentent comme un forçat. Rousseau.
Peint par Jeaurat. Gravé par Lépicié 1745.
à Paris chez Lépicié graveur du Roi au coin de l'abreuvoir du Quay des Orfevres. Et chez L. Surugue aussi graveur du Roi rue des Noyers vis a vis le mur de St. Yves. A.P.D.R.
Engraving, 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾") very large margins.
A young couple argue over letters in the woman's possession. After Etienne Jeaurat (1699-1789), French painter and draughtsman who rose to the highest positions of the Académie Française, becoming chancellor in 1781. Besides his history paintings, Jeaurat was also known for portraits, still-lifes and domestic genre scenes such as this.
[Ref: 40178] £290.00
à Paris chez Lépicié graveur du Roi au coin de l'abreuvoir du Quay des Orfevres. Et chez L. Surugue aussi graveur du Roi rue des Noyers vis a vis le mur de St. Yves. A.P.D.R.
Engraving, 380 x 275mm (15 x 10¾") very large margins.
A young couple argue over letters in the woman's possession. After Etienne Jeaurat (1699-1789), French painter and draughtsman who rose to the highest positions of the Académie Française, becoming chancellor in 1781. Besides his history paintings, Jeaurat was also known for portraits, still-lifes and domestic genre scenes such as this.
[Ref: 40178] £290.00