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[The pretty charlatan]La jolie charlatane / Sur les quays, ou les boulevards / Si jamais l'avois l'avantage [...]
F. Eisen le Pere Pinx. L. Halbou sculp
A Paris chez Ouvrier Graveur Place Maubert chez un M.d Bonnetier au Soleil d'or [c.1760]
Fine engraving, sheet 425 x 305mm (16¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border showing a 'pretty charlatan', with verses below explaining why she is best avoided. 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 'le Pere' [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: 44946] £520.00
A Paris chez Ouvrier Graveur Place Maubert chez un M.d Bonnetier au Soleil d'or [c.1760]
Fine engraving, sheet 425 x 305mm (16¾ x 11¾"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Scene in trompe l'oeil border showing a 'pretty charlatan', with verses below explaining why she is best avoided. 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 'le Pere' [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: 44946] £520.00