Le Sicilien ou l'Amour Peintre - L. Cars Engraving after Boucher
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Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The portrait scene, with the painter kneeling before Isidore and two figures spying behind the door.
Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The portrait scene, with the painter kneeling before Isidore and two figures spying behind the door.
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 9.7 x 6.9 in (24.7 x 17.5 cm); sheet 14.4 x 9.8 in (36.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Good impression. Foxing in the margins of the sheet, heavier along the right edge, outside the image.
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Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The portrait scene, with the painter kneeling before Isidore and two figures spying behind the door.