Le Médecin Malgré Lui, Molière - L. Cars Engraving after Boucher
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui (Le Medecin Malgré Luy in the lettering), with Sganarelle pressed by Valère and Lucas in a wooded landscape. From the series of thirty-three images by Laurent Cars after Boucher.
Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui (Le Medecin Malgré Luy in the lettering), with Sganarelle pressed by Valère and Lucas in a wooded landscape. From the series of thirty-three images by Laurent Cars after Boucher.
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 9.9 x 6.9 in (25.2 x 17.5 cm); sheet 14.4 x 9.8 in (36.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Light foxing in the margins and on the backing sheet; the image is clean.
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui (Le Medecin Malgré Luy in the lettering), with Sganarelle pressed by Valère and Lucas in a wooded landscape. From the series of thirty-three images by Laurent Cars after Boucher.