Le Mariage Forcé, Molière - Laurent Cars Engraving after Boucher
€140.00
Tax included
Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's Le mariage forcé, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The scene shows Sganarelle held back by his friends while the swordsman challenges him.
Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's Le mariage forcé, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The scene shows Sganarelle held back by his friends while the swordsman challenges him.
It belongs to the series of thirty-three illustrations Boucher designed for the 1734 Œuvres de Molière, engraved by Laurent Cars and Pierre Chedel. This example is a 19th-century impression in sanguine, printed by the Eudes press in Paris.
Medium: Etching and engraving, printed in sanguine.
Artist / after: François Boucher (1703-1770).
Engraver: Laurent Cars (1699-1771).
Date: 19th-century impression (copper of 1734).
Source: Œuvres de Molière. Imp. Eudes, Paris.
Dimensions: Plate mark 9.8 x 7 in (25 x 17.7 cm); sheet 14.4 x 9.8 in (36.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Good, fresh impression. Foxing scattered in the margins of the sheet, outside the image.
1621
16 other products in the same category:
Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's Le mariage forcé, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The scene shows Sganarelle held back by his friends while the swordsman challenges him.