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[Young Shepherds]Le petit donneur d'avis. / Pourquoi donc effrayer la jeune Célimene? / Tu viens, dis-tu, de voir un grand Loup dans la plaine? [...]
C. Eisen Inv. P.F. Tardieu Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 385 x 270mm (15 x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two shepherds, one altering the other to the presence of a wolf nearby. Verses below comparing the cruelty of love to the danger posed by the wolf. Engraved after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45065] £520.00
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 385 x 270mm (15 x 10½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two shepherds, one altering the other to the presence of a wolf nearby. Verses below comparing the cruelty of love to the danger posed by the wolf. Engraved after a design by Charles Eisen (1720-78), painter, draughtsman and illustrator. It was through his drawings, engraved to illustrate nearly 400 books, that Eisen's reputation was chiefly established. These included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Erasmus and La Fontaine.
[Ref: 45065] £520.00