Original copper engraving of 1775, "Le Lendemain des Nopces" (The Day after the Wedding), after a composition by David Teniers the Younger: a Flemish village scene beside the thatched houses and the trees, with the hamlet and a tower beyond. Begun by Martiny and finished with the burin by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas.
Original copper engraving of 1775, "Le Lendemain des Nopces" (The Day after the Wedding), after a composition by David Teniers the Younger: a Flemish village scene beside the thatched houses and the trees, with the hamlet and a tower beyond. Begun by Martiny and finished with the burin by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas.
Le Bas (1707-1783), engraver to the king and master of a whole generation of French burinists, was the great European popularizer of 17th-century Flemish and Dutch painting; his engravings after Teniers are among the most sought after of his output.
Medium: Copper engraving (etching finished with the burin)
Artist / after: David Teniers the Younger
Engraver / lithographer: Martiny and Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
Date: 1775
Dimensions: 15.5 x 12.6 in (39.3 x 32 cm)
Condition: Fair. Glued to card, with the margins damaged and, apparently, trimmed along the lower edge.