L'Impromptu de Versailles - L. Cars Engraving after Boucher
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L'Impromptu de Versailles - L. Cars Engraving after Boucher

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Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's L'impromptu de Versailles, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The players rehearse in the wings, with the bundles of their baggage in the foreground.

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Original engraving printed in sanguine for Molière's L'impromptu de Versailles, invented and drawn by François Boucher and cut by Laurent Cars, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris". The players rehearse in the wings, with the bundles of their baggage in the foreground.

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 6.9 in (24.8 x 17.5 cm); sheet 14.4 x 9.8 in (36.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Good impression. Foxing scattered through the margins of the sheet, outside the image.

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