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[The Tooth-puller] L'Arracheur de Dente / Ce Turc né dans nos murs, grace à notre folie, / Ne doit tous ses Succès qu'à son vaste Turban [...]
Eisen Pater Pinxit N. Dupuis Sculp.
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 325 x 265mm (12¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border showing a Turkish tooth-puller holding an enormous tooth; verses below stating that he 'owes all his success to his great turban' and drawing from this the conclusion that 'one can't succeed without being a charlatan'. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pater' [father] on this print. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44944] £550.00
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres [c.1760]
Engraving, sheet 325 x 265mm (12¾ x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border showing a Turkish tooth-puller holding an enormous tooth; verses below stating that he 'owes all his success to his great turban' and drawing from this the conclusion that 'one can't succeed without being a charlatan'. Engraved after François Eisen (c.1695-1778), painter who specialised in such genre pictures in a light-hearted Flemish manner. Eisen's son Charles was also a notable artist, hence the need to identify Eisen as 'Pater' [father] on this print. Part of a series of prints in this format after paintings by Eisen, with texts focusing on love, beauty and deception.
[Ref: 44944] £550.00