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[European Love] L'Amour européen Cette fiére Beauté, de l'Amour qu'elle brave / Sent en secret toute l'Ardeur [...]
Ch. Eisen Inv. F. Basan Exc.
AParis chés Basan Graveur [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, sheet 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A woman lounges on a chaise longue and reads while her lover caresses her hand. Engraving after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720-1778), painter and draftsman to the Louis XV and drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour. Published by Pierre-François Basan (1723-1797), engraver, printseller and publisher of a 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs' in 1767.
[Ref: 44963] £520.00
AParis chés Basan Graveur [n.d., c.1760.]
Engraving, sheet 385 x 290mm (15¼ x 11½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A woman lounges on a chaise longue and reads while her lover caresses her hand. Engraving after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen (1720-1778), painter and draftsman to the Louis XV and drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour. Published by Pierre-François Basan (1723-1797), engraver, printseller and publisher of a 'Dictionnaire des Graveurs' in 1767.
[Ref: 44963] £520.00