L'Ecole des Maris, Moliere - Engraving by Laurent Cars after Boucher
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L'Ecole des Maris, Moliere - Engraving by Laurent Cars after Boucher

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Original copper engraving printed in sanguine with a scene from Molière's "L'École des Maris", set in a street of Baroque architecture. Signed below by François Boucher as inventor and by Laurent Cars as engraver, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris".

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Original copper engraving printed in sanguine with a scene from Molière's "L'École des Maris", set in a street of Baroque architecture. Signed below by François Boucher as inventor and by Laurent Cars as engraver, with the imprint "Imp. Eudes, Paris".

The compositions of François Boucher engraved by Laurent Cars for the 1734 Œuvres de Molière are the most celebrated illustrated cycle of 18th-century French theater.

Medium: Copper engraving printed in sanguine.
Artist / after: François Boucher (1703-1770).
Engraver / lithographer: Laurent Cars (1699-1771).
Source: Œuvres de Molière; printed by the Eudes press, Paris.
Dimensions: Plate mark 6.9 x 9.7 in (17.6 x 24.7 cm); sheet 14.4 x 9.8 in (36.5 x 25 cm).
Condition: Thick paper with wide margins, with light foxing and a shadow of damp staining in the lower margin.

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