THE PRICE OF FAME
- Munch, Tiger and Bear
- Dürer, Five Lansquenets
- Bonnard, Dans la Rue
- Vuillard, La Couturiére
- Bellows, The Hold-Up
- Magritte, Oreille-Cloche
- Canaletto, Landscape
- Cezanne, Self-Portrait at the Easel
- Matisse, Repos du Modèle
- Pissarro, Rue Saint-Romaine
- Tiepolo, Three Soldiers
- Rouault, L’Enfant de la Balle
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette
- Jongkind, Jetée en Bois
- after Brueghel, Saint Jerome
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Piranesi, The Villa Albani
- after Rubens, St. Mary Magdalene
- Millet, La Fileuse Auvergnate
- Beckmann, Jacob Wrestles
- Corot, Environs de Rome
- Tissot, Le Matin
- Whistler, Little Dorothy
- Géricault, Cheval Anglais
- Ostade, The Barn
- Hogarth, A Chorus of Singers
- Watteau & Thomassin, Femme
- Goya, Nanny’s Boy
- Palmer, Herdsman’s Cottage
- Delacroix, Arabes d’Oran
- Sloan, Fifth Avenue Critics
- after Boucher, The Snare
- after da Vinci, Caricature Head
- Baskin, Bird-Man
- after Turner, In the Campagna
- after Raphael, A Muse
- Kirchner, Railway Curve
- Daumier, Eh, Eh ? Petit Gredin…
- Robert, Le Poteau
- Rowlandson, Wood Nymphs
- Doré, Lapplander Peasants
- van Dyck, Portrait of Brueghel
- after Constable, Mill Stream
- Rosa, Woman Walking to the Left
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33. after François Boucher (1703-1770) etched by Pierre Aveline (ca. 1702-1760) Le Trébuchet (The Snare) |
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Le Trébuchet (The Snare)
Etching and engraving, 394 x 280 mm., Jean-Richard 224, LeBlanc 114. Fine impression on thick, slightly brownish laid paper, trimmed inside the platemark but with a white border around the borderline and the full text below. Boucher was an accomplished etcher himself, though more of his prints are after Watteau than after his own designs. But he furnished images for many of his contemporaries and the number of prints after his work far exceeds those he made himself. Boucher’s original design for the print is said to be a painting of 1734, now lost, but the image also appears, in reverse, in a design for a fan. The purpose of the snare is to trap birds, presumably to cage them as pets.
