Antique Print-FRONTISPIECE-POETRY-ORNAMENT-ROUSSEAU-MUSIC-Picart-Bernaerts-1712

Price: € 39,50

Subject: Antique print, titled: 'Le poesies du sr. Rousseau.' - Ornamental cartouche with musical instruments and a satyr with mermaid.

Condition: Good, given age. Small margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Engraving on laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 9.7 x 16.3 cm. The image size is ca. 8.7 x 15 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 3.8 x 6.4 inch. The image size is ca. 3.4 x 5.9 inch.

Part Number: 59702

Location: C194-22

Description: For a volume of the poetry by Jean Baptiste Rousseau.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Balthasar Bernaerts' after 'Bernard Picart'. Balthasar Bernaerts (active 1720-1740) worked in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Bernard Picart. Bernard Picart (1673-1733) was a French painter and engraver. He received his art education from his father, Etienne (1632-1721), from Le Brun and Jouvenet at the Royal Academy. His talents developed rapidly: at the age of sixteen he gained honors at the Academy of Paris. His prints in the "French" taste were very popular. His way of working was also very influential for the book illustration in the Netherlands