Les Petites Marionnettes - Hand-Colored Etching, Le Bon Genre - 1815
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Hand-colored etching of 1815, number 84 in the series Le Bon Genre: a boy makes a set of planchette puppets dance from a string tied to his knee while he plays a whistle and a tabor, watched by a gentleman who has stopped with two elegant young women on his arm.
Hand-colored etching of 1815, number 84 in the series Le Bon Genre: a boy makes a set of planchette puppets dance from a string tied to his knee while he plays a whistle and a tabor, watched by a gentleman who has stopped with two elegant young women on his arm.
Le Bon Genre (Paris, 1800-1822) was the great pictorial chronicle of Parisian fashion and manners under the Consulate and the Empire. This piece is attributed to Georges Jacques Gatine (1773-1841) after a drawing by Louis Marie Lanté, and was published by Pierre de La Mésangère, editor of the Journal des Dames et des Modes.
Medium: Hand-colored etching.
Artist: Louis Marie Lanté.
Etcher: Georges Jacques Gatine (attributed).
Date: 1815.
Source: Le Bon Genre, no. 84; published by Pierre de La Mésangère, Paris.
Dimensions: 12.6 x 10 in (32 x 25.5 cm).
Condition: Good. The back, which is what the photograph shows, is clean, with light cockling and small nicks at the edges.
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Hand-colored etching of 1815, number 84 in the series Le Bon Genre: a boy makes a set of planchette puppets dance from a string tied to his knee while he plays a whistle and a tabor, watched by a gentleman who has stopped with two elegant young women on his arm.