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[Rural pleasures]Les Plaisirs Champetres.
Inventé et dessiné par M. Charles Eisen et gravé par M. De Longueil.
A Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin, Avec Privilege du Roy.
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A suggestive rural idyll 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: 46484] £260.00
A Paris chés Daumont rue St. Martin, Avec Privilege du Roy.
Fine engraving, sheet 170 x 215mm (6¾ x 8½"). Trimmed to platemark.
A suggestive rural idyll 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: 46484] £260.00