Antique Master Print-TRIOMPHE-SILENE-Lempereur-Van Loo-1747
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Description Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: lettering. Sheet size: 37.8 x 35.3 cm (14.88 x 13.9 inch). Image size: 37.8 x 35.3 cm. (14.88 x 13.9 inch). Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Trimmed to the plate. Thin paper at top margin and left bottom margin. Some pinsize holes at bottom. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. SILENUS, BACCHUS, VAN LOO, LEMPEREUR, MYTHOLOGICAL PRINT, 18TH CENTURY, FRENCH ENGRAVING, TRIUMPH, F?TE GALANTE | PCO-B2-41 BACKGROUND INFORMATION Source: unknown, to be determined. Reference: Certosa e Museo Nazionale di San Martino, Napoli, inv. 16655. Biography engraver: Louis-Simon Lempereur (1728-1807) was a French engraver known for reproductive engravings after major French painters. Active in Paris. Biography artist: Carle Van Loo (1705-1765), also known as Charles-Andr? Van Loo, was a leading French Rococo painter. He painted religious, historical, and mythological scenes and was court painter to Louis XV.
Mythology-Ancient History