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[The pretty farmer's wife]La Jolie Fermière
Inventé et dessiné par M. Charles Eisen et gravé par M. De Longueil
A Paris chés Daumont rue St Martin près St Julien Avec Privilege du Roy
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Interior scene displaying the spoils of a hunt. 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: 45104] £280.00
A Paris chés Daumont rue St Martin près St Julien Avec Privilege du Roy
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark; glued to album sheet at corners.
Interior scene displaying the spoils of a hunt. 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: 45104] £280.00