Jean Baptiste Molière
Engraver: Nicolas Bernard Lépicié; (French, 1735-1784).
Artist: after Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694-1752).
Published by: Eudes, Paris.
Media / technique: etching and engraving in sanguine.
Provenance: Oeuvres de Moliere
Production date: 19th century.
Plate mark: 25x17,7 cms.
Sheet size: 36,5x25 cms.
Condition: foxing.
This print is part of a series of thirty-three illustrations after F. Boucher engraved by Cars and Chedel for the works of Molière first published in 1734. The thirty-three inverted black chalk and wash drawings formerly with James de Rothschild are now kept in the manuscripts department of the National Library of France. Twenty-two copies after the graphite engravings are kept at Kristineholm Castle in Södermanland, Sweden.
Plate measures: 25,2x17,5 cm.
Sheet measures: 36,5x25 cm.
Condition: some foxing as can be seen in the image.