[Les Vivandiers Pair.]
Ch. Eisen inv. et del. / P.F. Tardieu Sculp
A Paris chés Tardieu Graveur du Roy, rue du Platre, la deuxieme porte cochere, a gauche entrant par la rue St. Jacques Avec Privilege du Roy [c.1770]
A pair of fine engravings, each sheet 210 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A pair of engravings the first showing a group of vivandiers, merchants who accompany the army to sell provisions to the soldiers. 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: 45102] £480.00
A Paris chés Tardieu Graveur du Roy, rue du Platre, la deuxieme porte cochere, a gauche entrant par la rue St. Jacques Avec Privilege du Roy [c.1770]
A pair of fine engravings, each sheet 210 x 235mm (8¼ x 9¼"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
A pair of engravings the first showing a group of vivandiers, merchants who accompany the army to sell provisions to the soldiers. 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: 45102] £480.00