La Princesse d'Élide, Molière - Laurent Cars Engraving after Boucher
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's La Princesse d'Élide: the episode of the bear in the wood, treated by Boucher with a landscape of great freedom. From the series of thirty-three engraved by Laurent Cars after his drawings.
Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's La Princesse d'Élide: the episode of the bear in the wood, treated by Boucher with a landscape of great freedom. From the series of thirty-three engraved by Laurent Cars after his drawings.
Boucher, painter at the court of Louis XV and protégé of Madame de Pompadour, drew the thirty-three compositions that Laurent Cars engraved for the 1734 Œuvres de Molière, one of the most celebrated groups in French rococo illustration.
Medium: Etching and engraving, printed in sanguine.
Artist / after: François Boucher (1703-1770).
Engraver: Laurent Cars (1699-1771).
Date: Copper of 1734; 19th-century impression by the Eudes press, Paris.
Source: Œuvres de Molière.
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: Foxing scattered through the margins and the backing sheet; the image is clean.
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's La Princesse d'Élide: the episode of the bear in the wood, treated by Boucher with a landscape of great freedom. From the series of thirty-three engraved by Laurent Cars after his drawings.