Le Dépit Amoureux, Molière - Laurent Cars Engraving after Boucher
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Dépit amoureux, with the two couples facing one another beneath a colonnaded portico. 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 Dépit amoureux, with the two couples facing one another beneath a colonnaded portico. It belongs to the series of thirty-three images that Laurent Cars engraved after drawings by 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 9.9 x 6.9 in (25.2 x 17.5 cm); sheet 14.4 x 9.8 in (36.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Heavy foxing over the whole sheet and its backing, some of it beside the edge of the plate mark; the image is clean.
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Original engraving in sanguine for Molière's Le Dépit amoureux, with the two couples facing one another beneath a colonnaded portico. It belongs to the series of thirty-three images that Laurent Cars engraved after drawings by François Boucher.