![[Illustration to "Les Lunettes" by La Fontaine]](jpegs/46489.jpg)
[Illustration to "Les Lunettes" by La Fontaine]
[After Charles Eisen, c.1761]
Engraving, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Illustration shows a nun fainting on seeing a naked man, from the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, 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 also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46489] £120.00
Engraving, sheet 200 x 130mm (8 x 5"). Trimmed to platemark.
Illustration shows a nun fainting on seeing a naked man, from the 'Fermiers généraux' edition of the 'Contes' (tales) of Jean de la Fontaine, 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 also included editions of Lucretius, Ovid, Tacitus, Virgil, Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Erasmus.
[Ref: 46489] £120.00