Les Amants Magnifiques, Molière - L. Cars Engraving after Boucher
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Les Amants magnifiques, the comédie-ballet written for the festivities at Saint-Germain, with the apparition of Venus among the clouds. From the series of thirty-three images by Laurent Cars after François Boucher.
Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Les Amants magnifiques, the comédie-ballet written for the festivities at Saint-Germain, with the apparition of Venus among the clouds. From the series of thirty-three images by Laurent Cars after François Boucher.
Laurent Cars (1699-1771), an Academician in 1733 and one of the best French engravers of the 18th century, cut these coppers for the Œuvres de Molière published in Paris in 1734, after drawings by François Boucher (1703-1770).
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: Heavy foxing in the margins and on the backing sheet, some of it close to the edge of the plate mark; the image is clean.
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Les Amants magnifiques, the comédie-ballet written for the festivities at Saint-Germain, with the apparition of Venus among the clouds. From the series of thirty-three images by Laurent Cars after François Boucher.