Standards
- van Meckenem, Ecce Homo
- Dürer, Saint Jerome
- Dürer, The Little Courier
- Dürer, The Satyr Family
- Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
- Altdorfer, The Resurrection
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham or Dürer, Bookplate
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Davent, Musicians
- Lautensack, Landscape
- Matham, The Planets
- Callot, Balli di Sfessania
- Callot, La Chasse au Cerf
- Rembrandt, Clement de Jonghe
- Rembrandt, The Goldsmith
- Della Bella, The Five Deaths
- Ostade, The Fiddler
- Both, The Five Senses
- Nanteuil, Hardouin de Beaumont
- Visscher, A Mouse in a Mouse Trap
- Masson, Guilllaume de Brisacier
- Piranesi, A View of the Temple
- Watson, Mrs. Hale as Euphrosyne
- Moreau, Les Petits Parains
- Janinet, Le Sommeil d’Arianne
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Unknown Engraver, Frederick
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Jacque, Les Musiciens
- Haden, A By-Road in Tipperary
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
- Bresdin, La Sainte Famille
- Whistler, Battersea Dawn
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fantin-Latour, Manfred and Astarte
- Legros, Le Grand Canal
- Buhot, La Place des Martyrs
- Forain, Le Calvaire (2e planche)
- Pennell, In the Mist of the Morning
- Hassam, The Old Mulford House
- Zorn, "Oxenstierna"
- Toulouse-Lautrec, La Modiste
- Cameron, The Palace
- Sloan, Anshutz on Anatomy
- Bone, The Trevi Fountain, Rome
- Knight, At the Footlights
- McBey, Palestine: Blue Bonnets
Les Petits Parains
Etching and engraving, 1776-7, from the Monument du Costume, 410 x 325 mm., Lawrence & Dighton 224 iv/iv, Bocher 1353 vii/vii. Fine, clear impression on laid paper with full, large margins; minor damages at the sheet edges. Moreau’s Monument du Costume was one of the glories of engraving of the French eighteenth century, a suite of twenty-four plates of a variety of genre subjects composing a virtual history of fashion in France in that era. Oddly, though the set is always listed as being by Moreau, and he himself was a superb and prolific engraver, the plates were engraved by a number of different men, in the case of this one, Charles Baquoy and J. B. Patas. The costumes, of course, are glorious, but it is the lighting from the torch, with its theatrical effect on the faces and figures, that makes this print so entrancing. The title, correctly "Parrains", means The Little Godparents -- clearly of a new-born member of the family.