The nocturnal abduction, after the gallant composition by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin and engraved by Nicolas Ponce: the young woman climbs down a ladder from the garden wall while the coach and the horsemen wait beneath the trees. Printed on laid paper with wide margins.
The nocturnal abduction, after the gallant composition by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin and engraved by Nicolas Ponce: the young woman climbs down a ladder from the garden wall while the coach and the horsemen wait beneath the trees. Printed on laid paper with wide margins.
Published in London in 1910 in French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century by H. W. Lawrence and B. L. Dighton, a survey of French gallant printmaking of the last third of the 18th century.
Medium: Engraving on laid paper
Artist / after: Pierre-Antoine Baudouin
Engraver / lithographer: Nicolas Ponce
Source: French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII Century (London, 1910)
Dimensions: 10.0 x 12.6 in (25.3 x 32 cm)
Condition: Image clean and well printed; the paper has foxing scattered through the margins