13. François Dequevauviller (1745-1807)
after Nicolas Lavreince (1737-1807)

L’Assemblée au Concert

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Dequevauviller, L’Assemblée

L’Assemblée au Concert

Etching and engraving, ca. 1785, 390 x 477 mm., Portalis & Béraldi 2, ex collection : Samuel Scheikevitch (Lugt 2367). In an elegant, oval salon, with muraled ceiling and sculpted walls, richly furnished, a group of people from the haut monde meet to converse and play music. The print is among the most famous images in French eighteenth-century engraving, far better known than the original gouache by the Swedish-born Lavreince (Lafrensen) that inspired it. A fine impression on laid paper trimmed just inside the platemark but with ample blank plate margins.