[The delights of country life]Les délices de la vie champetres
Eisen Del. de G.t Sculp. [c.1770]
Fine engraving before margins cleaned, sheet 295 x 205mm (11˝ x 8"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two naked women frolic in a river. 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: 45077] £320.00
Fine engraving before margins cleaned, sheet 295 x 205mm (11˝ x 8"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Two naked women frolic in a river. 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: 45077] £320.00
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