Le Depit Amoreux, after Boucher. Laurent Cars
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Le Depit Amoreux, from Boucher's etchings for the French comedy of Molière, engraved by Laurent Cars and published by Eudes (1876-1888) in Paris.
This print is part of a series of thirty-three illustrations after F. Boucher engraved by Cars and Chedel for the works of Molière published in 1734. This is the illustration of volume I, p. 129. The thirty-three inverted black chalk and wash drawings formerly with James de Rothschild are now kept in the manuscripts department of the National Library of France. Twenty-two copies after the graphite engravings are kept at Kristineholm Castle in Södermanland, Sweden.
Plate measures: 25,2x17,5 cm.
Sheet measures: 36,5x25 cm.
Condition: some foxing as can be seen in the iamge.
François Boucher (1703-1770) was a painter at the court of Louis XV and protégé of Madame de Pompadour, of whom he painted a number of portraits. He was one of the major artists of the Rococo movement in France. Influenced by Watteau’s fêtes galantes, he made the rococo a style in which the erotic treatment of the body was associated with a theatricality of movement and attitude in settings where artifice, winning out over realism, broke with the everyday, giving the paintings a newfound sensuality.
Laurent Cars (1699 – 1771) was a French designer and engraver. He was born at Lyon, the son of Jean-François Cars, who took him when quite young to Paris, where it was not long before he distinguished himself. In 1733 he was received as an Academician upon his portraits of Michel Anguier and Sébastien Bourdon. Cars, who was the master of Beauvarlet, may be considered one of the best French engravers of the 18th century, in the kind of subjects he selected. He died in Paris in 1771. His best plates are those engraved after Lemoyne, particularly that of 'Hercules and Omphale,' and the series of illustrations after Boucher's designs to the Comedies of Molière, and after Oudry to the Fables of La Fontaine.
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Le Depit Amoreux, from Boucher's etchings for the French comedy of Molière, engraved by Laurent Cars and published by Eudes (1876-1888) in Paris.
This print is part of a series of thirty-three illustrations after F. Boucher engraved by Cars and Chedel for the works of Molière published in 1734. This is the illustration of volume I, p. 129. The thirty-three inverted black chalk and wash drawings formerly with James de Rothschild are now kept in the manuscripts department of the National Library of France. Twenty-two copies after the graphite engravings are kept at Kristineholm Castle in Södermanland, Sweden.
Plate measures: 25,2x17,5 cm.
Sheet measures: 36,5x25 cm.
Condition: some foxing as can be seen in the iamge.
François Boucher (1703-1770) was a painter at the court of Louis XV and protégé of Madame de Pompadour, of whom he painted a number of portraits. He was one of the major artists of the Rococo movement in France. Influenced by Watteau’s fêtes galantes, he made the rococo a style in which the erotic treatment of the body was associated with a theatricality of movement and attitude in settings where artifice, winning out over realism, broke with the everyday, giving the paintings a newfound sensuality.
Laurent Cars (1699 – 1771) was a French designer and engraver. He was born at Lyon, the son of Jean-François Cars, who took him when quite young to Paris, where it was not long before he distinguished himself. In 1733 he was received as an Academician upon his portraits of Michel Anguier and Sébastien Bourdon. Cars, who was the master of Beauvarlet, may be considered one of the best French engravers of the 18th century, in the kind of subjects he selected. He died in Paris in 1771. His best plates are those engraved after Lemoyne, particularly that of 'Hercules and Omphale,' and the series of illustrations after Boucher's designs to the Comedies of Molière, and after Oudry to the Fables of La Fontaine.