La sortie de l'Opera after Moreau le Jeune - 1910 Heliogravure

Heliogravure of 1910 after "La sortie de l'Opéra", engraved with the burin by Malbeste from a drawing by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune. The lobby of the theater as the performance ends, with the crowd pressing below the lamp of the staircase and a flower seller at the right.

Jean-Michel Moreau, called le Jeune (1741-1814), was the great chronicler of the manners and the dress of Parisian society in the time of Louis XVI. This impression was published in London in 1910 in French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, by H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton.

Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, after the original 18th-century engraving
Artist / after: Jean-Michel Moreau, "le Jeune" (1741-1814)
Engraver of the original copper: Malbeste
Date of this impression: 1910
Source: French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century, London, 1910
Dimensions: 10.0 x 12.6 in (25.3 x 32 cm)
Condition: Very good condition; clean paper, with wide margins and the plate mark well marked.