LOT DETAILS

Materials:

mezzotint with roulette and engraving, on laid paper

Size Notes:

Plate 447 x 398 mm., Sheet 550 x 438 mm.

Markings:

JEAN-ETIENNE LIOTARD (1702-1789), mezzotint with roulette and engraving, circa 1778-80, on laid paper, indistinct Words watermark, a very good impression of this rare and important print, a proof before letters, with wide margins, a horizontal printer's crease, flattened folds at the left and right of the image and along the platemark below, some pale staining in the margins, otherwise in good condition

Literature:

Humbert, Revilliod & Tilanus 8; Roethlisberger & Loche 522 Regency to Empire - French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art & The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985, exhib. cat., no. 84 (an impression after letters illustrated).

Provenance:

With Arsène Bonafous-Murat, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1993.