LOT DETAILS

Materials:

etching, on laid paper

Size Notes:

plate; sheet 43 x 52.8 cm

Markings:

with an Auvergne watermark, with the inscription Avec Privilege du Roy

Condition:

a very good impression of the very rare third state (of five), with wide margins, probably the full sheet, with some repaired tears and small repaired paper losses at the sheet edges, some pale stains in the margins, otherwise in very good condition

Literature:

Baudicour 6; Wollin 22. V. Carlson & J. Ittmann, Regency to Empire - French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Fine Art & Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984, no. 80 (an impression of an intermediate state illustrated). P. Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013, no. 52 (a second/third state impression illustrated).