Original 19th century etching with an eighteenth-century drawing-room scene: ladies and gentlemen talking in a rococo cabinet of carved boiserie, with a mirror, a mantel clock and a card table behind. It reproduces a painting by the Cadiz-born painter Juan Antonio González, etched by Adolphe Lalauze.
Original 19th century etching with an eighteenth-century drawing-room scene: ladies and gentlemen talking in a rococo cabinet of carved boiserie, with a mirror, a mantel clock and a card table behind. It reproduces a painting by the Cadiz-born painter Juan Antonio González, etched by Adolphe Lalauze.
Juan Antonio González (Chiclana, 1842 - Paris, 1915) settled in Paris and specialized in pintura de casacón, gallant scenes set in the 18th century much in demand in the wake of Fortuny. Adolphe Lalauze (1838-1905) was one of the most highly regarded French etchers of his time. At the foot, the signatures Gonzalez pinx. and A. Lalauze sculp. and the imprint of A. Salmon, Paris.
Medium: Etching.
Artist / after: Juan Antonio González (Chiclana, Cadiz, 1842 - Paris, 1915), painter of the original.
Engraver: Adolphe Lalauze (1838-1905); printed by A. Salmon, Paris.
Date: 19th century.
Dimensions: Plate mark 8.3 x 11.2 in (21 x 28.5 cm).
Condition: Excellent. Presented in a mat.