Les Charlatans - Original Engraving by Louis Garreau after Dujardin
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A print of "Les charlatans": before a makeshift stage set up beside ruins, three players in the manner of the commedia dell'arte sell an elixir to the country folk while a masked musician plays the guitar. Signed at the lower left "L. Garreau sculp.".
A print of "Les charlatans": before a makeshift stage set up beside ruins, three players in the manner of the commedia dell'arte sell an elixir to the country folk while a masked musician plays the guitar. Signed at the lower left "L. Garreau sculp.".
The composition comes from a painting by Karel Dujardin (1626-1678), brought to the copper by Louis-Philibert-Francois Garreau (1770-1811) after the intermediary drawing of Jacques Swebach-Desfontaines (1769-1823), a painter of popular scenes much admired in the Paris of the turn of the century.
Medium: copper engraving
Artist / after: Karel Dujardin, with an intermediary drawing by Jacques Swebach-Desfontaines
Engraver: Louis Garreau
Dimensions: 11.8 x 10.5 in (30 x 26.6 cm)
Condition: fair; a small piece of paper missing at the upper left corner, visible in the photograph
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A print of "Les charlatans": before a makeshift stage set up beside ruins, three players in the manner of the commedia dell'arte sell an elixir to the country folk while a masked musician plays the guitar. Signed at the lower left "L. Garreau sculp.".