THE ALMOST-FORGOTTEN CENTURY
(The 18th, In Case You Forgot)
(The 18th, In Case You Forgot)
- Canaletto, View of a Town on a River Bank
- Canaletto, Landscape with a Tower
- Manaigo, Saint John the Baptist in a Niche
- Faldoni, Abraham and Melchizedek
- Anesi, Veduta di Villa Madama
- Cignaroli, The Three Marys at the Cross
- Tiepolo, The Holy Family Passing a Statue
- att. to Panfili, Design for the Title Page
- Piranesi, Piazza del Popolo
- Piranesi, The Pantheon (Exterior)
- Piranesi, The Piazza Navona with S. Agnese on the Right
- Piranesi, The Isola Tiberina with S. Bartolomeo in the Foreground
- Novelli, Emblem Medalion for Gaetano Vitali
- Volpato, Il Boschetto d’Arcadia verso la Reggia
- Boucher, Tête de Bourgeois Coiffé
- Gautier-Dagoty, François Boucher
- Demarteau, Jeune Fille à la Cage
- Fragonard, Deux Femmes sur un Nuage
- Gillot, La Vie des Satyrs (Set of Four)
- Descourtis, Paul et Virginie (Set of Six)
- Moyreau, La Musette
- Van Loo, Pierrot et Scapin
- LePrince, Les Pêcheurs
- LePrince, 2me Suite de Divers Cris de Marchands de Russie
- Robert, Les Soirées de Rome: Title Page
- Delarue, A Pagan Sacrifice
- Loutherbourg, Resting Peasants with Animals in a Landscape
- Loutherbourg, 1ére Suite de Soldats (Set of Six)
- Loutherbourg, 2nde Suite des Figures (Set of Six)
- Janinet, Deux Vuës de la Grèce (pair)
- Moitte, La Catéchisme
- Mauclair, Quand l’Hymen Dort
- Moreau, Les Petits Parains
- Norblin de la Gourdaine, Le Grand Joueur
- Mallet, A Couple Under a Parasol
- Drevet, Jacques Benigne Bossuet
- Earlom, A Game Market
- Hogarth, A Chorus of Singers
- MacArdell, Lady Caroline Russell
- Cooper, Mountainous Landscape with a Herd on the Move
- Pether, King Uzziah Stricken with Leprosy
- Runciman, Perseus and Andromeda (Large Plate)
- Robertson, Cowherds and Cattle by a Stand of Trees
- Worlidge, Bust of a Man in a Feathered Turban
- MacArdell, Lords John and Bernard Stuart
- Romney, Preliminary Study for the Painting of the Gower Family
- Howitt, The Fox Hunt (Set of 4)
- Bretherton, Concerto Spirituale
- Smith, The Fern Gatherers
- Beich, The Conversion of St. Paul
- Chodowiecki, The Wedding of Friderike Sophie
- Kauffman, Das Mädchen bei der Urne
- von Bemmel, The Artist by the Waterfall
- Glume, Portrait of the Painter Joachim Martin Falbe
- att. to Füger, Christ Calling Simon
- Wachsmuth, German Alphabet with Fantastic Figures
- Wocher & Janinet, The Wrestlers on the Ramparts of Bern
- Schouman, The Great Crested Grebe
- Stolker, Der Junge Mann
- att. to Andriessen, Sawyers by a Shed
- Vieira de Mattos, Seated Woman Holding a Bird, with a Nude Child
- Goya, Bien Tirada Está (It’s Nicely Stretched)
- Goya, Allá Vá Eso (There It Goes)
- Goya, Que Pico de Oro ! (What A Beak of Gold!)
- Goya, El de la Rollona (Nanny’s Boy)
- Goya, Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Pintor (Self Portrait)
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32. Mauclair or Maucler (French, fl. ca. 1785-86) after Charles-Michelange Challe (1718-1778) Quand l’Hymen Dort, l’Amour Veille (When Marriage Sleeps, Love Wakes) |
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Quand l’Hymen Dort, l’Amour Veille (When Marriage Sleeps, Love Wakes)
Stipple engraving printed in colors, ca. 1760, 400 x 466 mm., Portalis & Béraldi III-744 (this print cited). A fine impression on laid paper with thread margins most of the way around; a small burn (?) and hole in blank paper. One of the odder elements of the French Rococo was the effort to imitate English styles of print making, as, for example, the stipple engraving. This superb example printed from a single plate, which had to be painted afresh with the colors for each impression taken (à la poupée), is one of the finest of its type. Challe is a well-known artist, originally for his Piranesi-like architectural studies, but Mauclair is sufficiently obscure so that we do not even know his first name. Nevertheless, the print itself is famous. Another impression is currently being offered elsewhere at more than double this price.
