Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Molière - L. Cars Engraving after Boucher
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, with Monsieur Jourdain's fencing lesson. It belongs to the series of thirty-three images that Laurent Cars engraved after drawings by François Boucher.
Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, with Monsieur Jourdain's fencing lesson. It belongs to the series of thirty-three images that Laurent Cars engraved after drawings by François 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: Foxing scattered through the margins and the backing sheet; the image is clean.
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, with Monsieur Jourdain's fencing lesson. It belongs to the series of thirty-three images that Laurent Cars engraved after drawings by François Boucher.