Name: JACQUES-PHILIPPE LEBAS (1707-1783) AFTER JEAN BAPTISTE SIMÉON CHARDIN (1699-1779)
Brand: Etude du Dessein (The Drawing Lesson)
Price: 1300.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

JACQUES-PHILIPPE LEBAS (1707-1783) AFTER JEAN BAPTISTE SIMÉON CHARDIN (1699-1779)
Etude du Dessein (The Drawing Lesson)
etching with engraving, circa 1749–83, on laid paper, watermark Double-headed Eagle with Coronet (similar to Haewood 1316), a fine impression of Bocher's second, final state
Plate 293 x 329 mm.
Sheet 423 x 484 mm.

With Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 17 December 1998.

Bocher 18; IFF 132

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Lot Essay

The sculture serving as a model in this scene of a drawing lesson is the famous Mercury attaching his sandals by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785). A much larger bronze cast of the sculpture at the Louvre is dated 1753. If Chardin painted the scene in 1749, it must be an earlier version depicted here.
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