FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION
A fine collection of French Eighteenth Century colour prints, formerly in the Private Collection of Lord Duveen, and later of his daughter the Hon. Dorothy Burns
(Lots 365-386)
Jean-François Janinet (1752-1814)
Details
Jean-François Janinet (1752-1814)
Marie Antoinette d'Autriche, Reine de France et de Navarre, after J. B. A. Gautier-Dagoty (P. & B. II. p.486, no. 132; Inventaire 18e Siècle, XII, p.29, no. 56; Regency to Empire cat. 66)
etching with engraving printed in colours, 1777, a fine impression, the colours strong, with the title in the lower margin, and with the rare separate framing device (which conceals the lettering), with margins, a short tear at the lower sheet edge, two short repaired tears in the right margin of the frame-sheet extending to the borderline, some pale foxing, framed
P. 410 x 320mm.
Marie Antoinette d'Autriche, Reine de France et de Navarre, after J. B. A. Gautier-Dagoty (P. & B. II. p.486, no. 132; Inventaire 18e Siècle, XII, p.29, no. 56; Regency to Empire cat. 66)
etching with engraving printed in colours, 1777, a fine impression, the colours strong, with the title in the lower margin, and with the rare separate framing device (which conceals the lettering), with margins, a short tear at the lower sheet edge, two short repaired tears in the right margin of the frame-sheet extending to the borderline, some pale foxing, framed
P. 410 x 320mm.