La Sainte Vierge accompagnée de plusieurs saints; The Virgin and Child with Saints
1729. Chiaroscuro woodcut with aquatint in bistre, ochre and tan on heavy weight cream laid paper with a large heraldic watermark with a winged shield, sash and fleur-de-lis, 16 1/8 x 9 inches (409 x 229 mm), thread margins. In excellent condition with minor toning. From the Basan edition printed in 1764.
The preliminary outline for and fine details of this collaborative print were etched in intaglio by the French amateur printmaker Anne Claude de Tubières, Comte de Caylus (abbreviated on the plate as M.r le C... de C...), and the tonal color blocks were produced using chiaroscuro woodcut blocks cut by Nicolas Le Sueur. When François Basan republished the set in 1764, the original woodcut blocks which had degraded or been misplaced were replaced with an aquatint plate (a copperplate etching technique) to mimic the look of the woodcut.
Condition: Excellent.
Item number: 2987
Price: $800.00
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