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[The good-humoured old woman]La vieille de bonne humeur / Loin du bel age ou régne Amour et ses desirs, / L'antique Alix se le rappele [...]
C. Eisen inv. et del C. Chevilet Sculp [c.1760]
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x 275mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
An old woman drinks with a young couple, remembering her youth and 'believing it renewed'. Verses by Moraine below. Engraving 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: 45068] £470.00
A Paris chés Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur.
Fine engraving, sheet 390 x 275mm (15½ x 11"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
An old woman drinks with a young couple, remembering her youth and 'believing it renewed'. Verses by Moraine below. Engraving 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: 45068] £470.00