Le Charlatan Allemand - Original Engraving by Helman after Bertaux - 1777
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Le Charlatan Allemand - Original Engraving by Helman after Bertaux - 1777

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Original 18th-century engraving, Le charlatan allemand: a mountebank on horseback cries his remedies before a knot of villagers and soldiers at an inn door. Etched and engraved with the burin by Isidore-Stanislas Helman in 1777 after the 1776 drawing by Bertaux.

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Original 18th-century engraving, Le charlatan allemand: a mountebank on horseback cries his remedies before a knot of villagers and soldiers at an inn door. Etched and engraved with the burin by Isidore-Stanislas Helman in 1777 after the 1776 drawing by Bertaux.

Below the image are a dedication to Monsieur Gueret, painter and professor at the Drawing School of Lille, and the publisher's address in Paris, at the Hotel de Cluny. It forms a pair with Le charlatan francais, engraved by Helman in the same year.

Medium: Etching and burin engraving.
Artist / after: Bertaux (drawing dated 1776).
Engraver: Isidore-Stanislas Helman (Lille, 1743 - Paris, c. 1806).
Date: 1777.
Dimensions: Image 9.6 x 6.9 in (24.5 x 17.5 cm).
Condition: A small cut at the top of the sheet; the paper somewhat browned, the image clean.

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