Very good impression complete and enhanced with gouache and varnished, in a provençal setting or northern italy of XVIIIth century. Rare shards or small accidents at frame. The print has not been removed from its frame.
Hind nr 15 (I/VI). Very good impression of first state (of six) before Bouchard and Gravier’s address. Some pronunced folds and creases mostly at top, slight vertical median crease. Small margins. Rare. Watermark : lily flower in a double circle.
Dimension: 205 (etching) - 170 (drawing) mm x 285 (etching) - 230 (drawing) mm
Poncetton nr 1 (I/II). Good impression. Ensemble d’une gravure et d’un dessin préparatoire by ink, la seconde signed; la première du first state (of 2), before que le visage du nain ne soit gratté. Some creases and breaks, rests of mounting paper on the back and some stains à la première; folds, small tears and […]
Titled at foot on center. Annotated on the back by a main “recent” : “6 modèles ayant servi pour des assiettes commandées par le Roi de Hollande”. Rares piqûres and slight oxidation.
Préaud nr 73. Very good impression of the only state. A strip of paper (of the time ?) added at top on the back; many creases in the letter and some other in the subject, one diagonal tearing very slightly at the end of edge. Small margins. Rare in this print quality.
L. Marchesano and C. Michel nr 3; Robert-Dumesnil nr 42. Very good impression in two sheet assemblées. Slight foxings, mostly in the lower. Vertical median fold; some tiny épidermures and some marginal short tears. Girard Audran and Gérard Édelinck traduisirent, between 1672 and 1678, les grandes toiles peintes par Charles Le Brun illustrant les Batailles […]
Very good impression on laid paper in colors of the time, trimmed at the platemark or slightly into this one. Stain in the right lower angle and some slight creases.